If you actually knew him as a businessman, you never would have voted for him.
You knew the character he played on a reality show there on the teevee and you voted for the character — like a five-year-old voting for Ronald McDonald. https://t.co/LUaBieuuuc pic.twitter.com/9oA2z9h5gw
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 12, 2022
When the NYTimes does the nutpicking for you…
… There was no talk of a stolen election, no conspiracy theories about voter fraud or rants about President Biden’s legitimacy. Yet listening to our 90-minute focus group with eight conservative men, you couldn’t help but worry for our democracy a bit.
The men didn’t see themselves fitting into American society today. They didn’t feel free to be themselves in the culture. Seven of them said they felt like a stranger in their own country. At a time when democratic institutions are under pressure — and even under attack — and the United States feels so ununited, what causes these Americans to feel so alienated from America?
After recent focus groups with Democratic-leaning voters on the economy; younger women on work, relationships and gender roles; and teenagers on school and their futures, we decided to talk to conservative men about how they see themselves and what they value. Most said they believed society is headed toward increased rule breaking and a “me, me, me” culture. Crime and a sense of lawlessness came up a lot; our focus group leader, Kristen Soltis Anderson, was surprised by how much they used examples of poor road etiquette as emblematic of broader societal decay…
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