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I see posts like this and wonder if I'm looking at an outlier, or if this is genuinely 80% of their voter base
The MAGA base is almost entirely people who are so reactionary to their own feelings that they will never, ever listen to arguments from places of reason like the joke in the meme OP posted.
"If it makes me feel good, it's good. If it makes me feel bad, it's bad." - American conservatives broadly.
What they don't get, and will never understand, is that the narratives for how they feel are being supplied to them from outside sources. A tactic that only grifters on the right seem to have the balls to employ, despite it being the easiest thing in the world to change how these clowns feel and thus what direction they're pointed at.
Isn't trying to change people's attitudes (Wikipedia) notoriously difficult?
Just to check if we're on the same page, do you consider US Dems as "right" or something else?
If you look at polls there is like 33% of the population who will support Trump no matter what. Of those, about half are relatively normal people who are just kind of stupid and from areas where conservatism is the norm and would support everything literally anyone did if they were Republicans. The other half are these people.
80% of their voter base has a brother or cousin like this, and they'll be the ones ostracized if they don't condone it. Infinite forgiveness for family and bloodline.