My mother, our family’s token pseudo-progressive Obama reverer... likes Trump a lot, and couldn’t understand my revulsion with him.
I call it, shared indignation, I suppose that is how he makes the public feel empowerment with his message.
The cult of personality is alive and well amongst the sheeple...be they left or right.
I have always paid attention and I always think about who I vote for and why, and always carefully examined every proposition on the ballot. I always I took the time to examine both sides of the issue, and 99.9% of the time, I rejected the democrat's view.
I remember in my college days, taking a class about Red China, and listening to the instructor praise the Red Chinese Communists to the skies and all but curse America. It made me uncomfortable and sad, but it was overwhelming, every class, every quarter, nothing but left wing democrats, so I started to buy into the leftist point of view. But then one day that instructor in the Red China class had a slide show about the great progress the Red Chinese Communist govt had made in infrastructure. There was a picture of an outhouse, which was nothing but a hole in the ground, and then a picture taken 10 years later do demonstrate the great progress that had been made — a bush growing in front of the hole. That made me realize I had a responsibility to question things, and I began to realize there was good reason why so many people were so resistant to communism.
I subscribed to both National Review and Human Events, which was quite a difficult thing to do on my student income but as a soon-to-be first voter, I felt it was important to really understand the issues, and the cold war was the great issue of the day. (I even took a look at what the John Birch Society had to say — their literature was the right price — free!) Obviously, for the left wing, there was plenty of classroom indoctrination and books to read (such as Malthus) I did not have to go to any effort to seek those opinions out, indeed I was forced to learn and regurgitate left wing/communist/democrat propaganda.
This was well before there was a Rush Limbaugh, et al, when the media was uniformly pro democrat, and there was virtually no easily-found or well known conservative voice crying in the wilderness.
Truefully, occasionally a democrat (such as Scoop Jackson or Willaim Proxmire with his Golden Fleece award) would impress me but I think I have earned the right not to be called a sheeple, and I am telling you I think there are some very good reasons for supporting Donald Trump, and those good reasons by far outweigh the things I do not like.
I have a lot of Obama-voting family. They hate Trump. But they all live in IL, and I think they believe politics is a team sport. :-).