Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
Paul Krugman tries to understand Trump voters, who, so far at least, still support him and, indeed, according polls, think he’s doing a hunky-dory job. A snippet:
Now think about what it means to have voted for Trump. The news media spent much of the campaign indulging in an orgy of false equivalence; nonetheless, most voters probably got the message that the political/media establishment considered Trump ignorant and temperamentally unqualified to be president. So the Trump vote had a strong element of: “Ha! You elites think you’re so smart? We’ll show you!”