• Machinist@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    The racism doesn’t explain it for me.

    It’s certainly a contributing factor, and I think it’s closer to whatever venality trump has tapped into in these people.

    However, just the way the man presents himself should have been an immediate turnoff for most of these people.

    He’s a fop, a dandy, he’s got a swish in his mannerisms that borders queer stereotypes for many southerners. He’s city soft. Which these people hate just as much as they hate black folks.

    Personal experience, I don’t understand deacons, colonels, PhDs, and skilled blue collar worshipping the freak. It’s not about policy, it’s that they’re just as bigoted against how he presents himself as they are about race.