"Not to defend Trump, but to defend the people who still vote for him," Maher said. "Because what they see on the other side, to them, is even more dangerous. Because it's closer to home: My kid is coming home from school and he thinks he's a racist? He's five, what have you been telling him? My son thinks maybe he's not a boy.' And maybe that's true, that happens. Those kind of things are what they say. That's why I'm voting for Trump.'"
For "lots of people," Maher theorized, it's not as though they actually like Trump. "But he's all that stands between us and madness."https://t.co/oCzQuUr0MK
" The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 15, 2024
"Why is it so hard for folks to understand this phenomenon?"
You were liberal once?
Give me a break.
"My point is that the democratic party bleeds voters every year as they age. Every generation falls into that."
My understanding is, that is not really happening like it used to. This has been documented for years now. (It also goes hand in glove with, and explains, Republican voter suppression efforts.)
Millennials are shattering the oldest rule in politics
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Millennials Will Not Age Into Voting Like Boomers
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Millennials and Gen Z Are Tilting Left and Staying There
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Are millennials getting more conservative as they age? Why it's hard to know
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