It's a cult.

You ask, don't they see who he is?

Yes, they do. THEY. DON'T. CARE. He speaks for them. They want what he wants, despite his "approach."

Via Rachel Scott:

#Trump supporters packing his event today despite the brutal cold.

I asked several supporters if the bitter weather will impact turnout.

“I would walk over shattered glass for Donald Trump,” one woman told me.

@DrOinFLA That was the past. He was never criminally indicted before now. And he never had his business dissolved out from under him.

Forget the past. Trump can't live in it either.

Making a distinction between "the exploited" and "the exploiters" is a really big oversimplification. If one wants to use Marxist analysis in their daily life, this is not gonna help.

Like, obviously there is a difference between billionaires and the rest of us. Obviously, a rich IT worker is not really "as evil" as Elon Musk. But that's like all the insight you will get from this framework.

Terms like middle class help, because they actually (somewhat) meaningfully describe reality. There are not only 2 classes in a society, there are more. And there are different societies with different class compositions.

And what class you're from actually really influences how you're thinking and behaving. I come from upper middle class (approximately). When I went to college I was like "of course I want to go to college what do you mean". I had friends in college before I went there already.

My friends "lower on the social ladder" rarely went to college and if they did, it was without the support of their surroundings (if I may speak for them). It was a bigger deal.

And that's just one example of a huge difference.
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