Dems fail so often to see why that would never hurt Trump - easy to gloss it over as they're in a cult, just the uneducated and ignorant, racists, etc.

There's just too many people utterly failed by the current system. The middle class being squeezed out, economic mobility stratifying, the regressive tax effects of inflation that simultaneously make the economy look good on paper, while hurting those who can least afford it the most.

Dems are too afraid to be called "socialists" or already too in the pockets of corporations to induce the real change the system requires to correct that. And when they do manage something vaguely effective, they can't message to save their lives. And so are losing all those for whom "it's the economy stupid."

So for all those people the system has failed, voting for a convicted felon is just one more way of giving the finger to the system that failed them.

Understand your enemy. It's not the opposing voter or candidate. It's the systemic failures enabling them.