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Counting the Trump Cards (Updated) 0

Dan Morain tries to figure out why persons who should see through con still support Trump. Here’s a bit from the beginning of the article:

Trump has used his wealth to fund his campaign, $17.5 million. It’s a loan, which he can forgive, or repay with money donated to his campaign. Donors have given $7.5 million to date, $5.8 million of which has come in increments so small that he is not required to identify them by name.

Californians have given $208,000 of the $1.6 million in donations of $200 or more, the level at which Trump must disclose donors’ names. Hoping to understand them, I called a bunch of them.

The ones who called back were middle-aged and white, like me, though unlike them, I will not vote for Trump or, for that matter, buy his overpriced ties. Hardly the uneducated rubes who often are the focus of what’s written about Trump’s campaign, his donors include lawyers, doctors, people in real estate and finance, even a few Hollywood types.

Follow the link and try to make sense out what they told him.

When you do, let me know.

In related news, Jeb Lund over at The Guardian offers a theory.

Addendum:

Field nails the inconsistency in the “reasoning” of many Trump supporters (emphasis added):

I have heard the constant refrain of, I don’t support everything trump says, but I like the way he shoots from the hip, and I think he will shake up Washington. He might in fact do those things, but you can’t separate who trump is and what he represents from supporting his policies and the influence that he will have on the political class.

Supporting Trump because you are ticked off at the world is like shooting wildly into the air. It may be fun to do, but the shells fall back to earth to do harm.

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