• kerrigan778@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      They are white and conservative and have likely never known poverty, every interaction they’ve had with the law has been the most reasonable and generous interpretation of it. They assumed that’s what Trump meant. That Trump wanted to deport the criminal element that everyone else was specifically protecting and refusing to acknowledge. They’d never seen firsthand the law applied cruelly against people they consider to be good people. They really still believed law enforcement was there to “do good” and protect “good” people, because that’s most of how they’ve dealt with them personally.

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        3 months ago

        I agree with the great majority of what you’re saying except:

        have likely never known poverty

        I grew up in poverty along with almost everyone else in my hometown. The whole area is super red. That’s exactly the kind of thing they believe.

        Not to say there aren’t those kinds of people who haven’t known poverty, it just doesn’t seem to factor in.