Your Dad or MoM is voting for Trump. How would you describe him or her?

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As ever one should distinguish between a candidate's activists and their voters. I wouldn't judge my hypothetical family member for merely voting for trump, but ramping up that vote to outright activism would be a deplorable action.

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A problem that a lot of people who like politics (e.e. atlas users) forget is the vast majority of people don't like politics, are informed of politics through somewhat mangled word of mouth rather than the news and don't spend months and months deliberating their vote.

That is why I don't think it is helpful to think of people who vote for various deplorable people, parties and regimes as some sort of evil mass. People make their minds up through a swarm of factors unique to them, and once a mind is made up, human nature dictates that it is very difficult to reverse these positions.

We must fight fascism, yes. But it is futile to do so without making a concerted effort to understand why - in psychological terms - people allow themselves to become passive supporters of authoritarianians. In an American context, politically minded people cannot allow themselves to fall in the trap of considering half of the population as irredeemable fascists.