If someone keeps choosing an authoritarian and likes the authoritarian even more when he does authoritarian stuff, then maybe they just...like authoritarianism?
“The world changes so fast, we’re in a different world now,” [Trump voter Jesse Gutierres] said. “When Trump was in office, the economy was in absolutely terrific shape. There was more competition, more freedom.”
Just as a factual matter, this is false. Every single word of it.
Along nearly every measurable vector, the economy is better today than it was on Election Day in 2020. But the New York Times has nothing to say about any of that. They just sent a photographer to the Gutierres home, took a handsome picture, and acted as his stenographer while amplifying his feelings.
Because we must understand why all of these people support a man who wrecked the American economy, attempted a violent insurrection, is under 91 felony indictments, and has been disavowed as a threat to the country by a large number of the high-level Republicans who worked directly for him.
As always: The New York Times is part of the effing problem.
This package does nothing to help readers understand the motivations of Trump voters. It merely amplifies their fact-free feelings.
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