There is some reason to think Democracy does allow people who try to appeal to the mob or sectarian hatred. I believe in Indonesia the democratization process led to increased anti-Chinese riots. The Chinese really did have higher per-capita income and wealthy minority groups sometimes do attract popular hostility.

See I actually tend to think of myself as conservative, but even if I didn't I think some resentment to Ivies and the Bos-Wash corridor makes sense. During the recession journalists sheepishly admitted they kind of ignored the places most harmed in favor of stories about politicians responses to it and what goes on in…

I do think Trump was a very weird choice for what they wanted. Palin made more sense for all the things I named. (Red state, middle-class background, non-Ivy, Evangelical Protestant, etc.)

I think what I get from this is he's a libertarian bad guy. So, okay?

I seem to recall him being released from jail/secured-asylum and being banned from the Internet for some period of time. After that I haven't heard anything of him…

I think they preferred to be called sex-worker managers with dwarfism.

There are many aspects of reality that are fairly probabilistic, not black and white, and it's not like the electorate in 2012 were a bunch of staunch empiricists.

Well even among the nicest Trump voters I've met there usually is pretty strong hostility to Islam and some resentment to Ivy Leaguers. I think my original version mentioned the education aspect more.

This idea that any electorate is a bunch of informed critical thinkers seems a little ridiculous. I'd even question the idea that's a good idea. Plenty of smart rational people are terrible at leadership. "Feeling" might be useful to determining whether someone has the personality to be able to work with others.

I thought it was just the phrase here people use to say something is both stupid and bad. "That is how you get Trump" doesn't literally mean they think whatever it is was a factor in getting Trump elected.

Something like that might "help."

Squeaky wheel gets the grease and all. Fred Phelps's church got far more attention than most any church of similar size. They were good at saying outlandishly offensive things in public protests in various locations, which maybe made them look "bigger" than they were in reality. If you are sufficiently loud and/or…

I'd guess the majority of people here are white, so not sure I see the relevance.

I was thinking "she's faking that dead eye, just like Bob Dole's faking that dead arm." (Early Dale Gribble maybe had a bit in common with Jones. Although he was more a G. Gordon Liddy guy.)

Thanks. I did gather this was maybe a weird idea one or two people, as individuals, had that "Hey I'm saved so I can do anything now." The one story I heard the other Baptists kind of told the woman something like, "What? No, that's not what we believe."

Yeah. During the primaries they found his Evangelical support tended to be Evangelicals who went to church less. Fast forward and now his strongest Evangelical support, in a recent study, is among Evangelicals who go to church more.

The following somewhat relates to it.

I'm a fifth child as was my mother before me. We were getting rare by 1977 though. (One curiosity they indicate women with post-graduate degrees are having more children than they were in the early 1990s though still less likely than less educated women.)

The females are as strong as Hessians!

There were people very into the Titanic. I think there is even an effort now to declare Father Thomas Byles a saint.