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To be fair, Trump also stands for hurting whites. That's the problem with fascism, you don't ever really eliminate the enemy. You just redefine who the enemy is whenever it's convenient. Eventually, if there's nothing but white people left, then a sub group of them will become the new scapegoat, and then when they're gone another, etc.

This works for Republicans of color also, they see themselves as a step up from the "others". They may not be white, but they aren't just Black/Hispanic/[under-represented group]. That one guy in SC stated online "I'm a black Nazi!"

More generally, it's in-group vs out-group. For many people, the in-group is "white men" and the out-group is "everyone else". But this behavior is pretty baked into humans. We'll form stupid groups over anything. I was reading a book about how people change their minds, and it talked about some experiments they did. Like, they gave kids at a summer camp different colored shirts, and sure enough they formed separate groups. They had to stop the experiment when one group tried to burn down the cabin of the other group.

I don't know how to fix this.

I was with you right up until the end.

Hillary's gender is a weak excuse that the DNC and the establishment Dems trot out to try to duck the blame for sabotaging a sincere progressive in order to run a neolib weasel who gives paid speeches to international bankers and idolizes Kissinger.

The DNC stands for hurting non whites. Trump hurts all people.

Don't forget microplastics!

At the least, some considerable part of the problem is that angry, stupid bigots who used to be mostly limited to cringey drunken solo rants are now able to network with each other and cheer on each other's anger and stupidity and bigotry.

OP is right that instead of believing the lies and propaganda, a 5min google could have really cleared things up for some people. The problem is Trump consistently implied that other countries pay the tariffs, which obviously isn’t how tariffs work.

US companies pay them as import costs, and pass those costs directly to the consumer in the form of price increases. That’s why tariffs are a Tax by another name.

He also back pedals on everything, and is a lying shit sack. But those are just two giant character flaws that should have immediately disqualified him to anyone who isn't an idiot.

It's just common sense that taxes make costs go up. Any other belief is magical thinking and anyone dumb enough ti fall for it deserves to be fooled