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• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I genuinely have no idea how this guy managed to convince so many trumpanzees to vote for him. Like Nancy Pelosi correctly said, he’s a vile creature: even if you somehow agree with his policies, he’s clearly a terminally nasty and mean misanthrope, and someone nobody with any penchant for nice human contacts wants to spend anytime around of. I completely fail to fathom how such a repulsive human being can have such charisma.

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  • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    it’s incredible what people do when they think with emotion and not logic

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    • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      But that’s my point: the only emotion Trump elicits in me is nausea and repulsion. And it’s not even a political assessment: he’s simply not a pleasant human being. Why people vote for unpleasant human beings, of find unpleasant human beings somehow appealing, is utterly baffling to me…

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      • BingBong@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’d place a good chunk of the reason on right wing propaganda channels. When you see stupid or repulsive behavior but then immediately have a talking head to rationalize it away you get a very dangerous alternate reality effect.

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      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Why people vote for unpleasant human beings, or find unpleasant human beings somehow appealing, is utterly baffling to me…

        Probably the republican version of vote blue no matter who.

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      • Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I agree with you. I still can’t make sense of it and I don’t understand how he is seen as having charisma. Even his voice is repulsive.

        He’s so fake and slimy in his mannerisms.

        Only thing I can figure is that many people just don’t perceive him this way and find him warm and personable.

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