Posted on 04/29/2020 8:27:58 AM PDT by Helicondelta
After voters watched the Demorats behavior these past few years and throughout this Covid crisis.....oh I think the Trump voters will happily show up in droves to make certain Trump is more than a solid win......but overwelmingly so.
Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all unifying agents. It pulls and whirls the individual away from his own self, makes him oblivious of his weal and future, frees him of jealousies and self-seeking. He becomes an anonymous particle with a craving to fuse and coalesce with his like into one flaming mass... Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil... Common hatred unites the most heterogeneous elements. To share a common hatred, with an enemy even, is to infect him with a feeling of kinship, and thus sap his powers of resistance... We have it from Hitler... that the genius of a great leader consists in concentrating all hatred on a single foe. -- Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements", [pp 85-87]
We shouldn’t forget 2012 when polls indicated that Romney had an enthusiasm edge on Obama. The Obama campaign used a very high tech GOTV effort, with an assist from Facebook, to overcome that. The gap may not have been as high as this in 2012, but they’ll be looking for ways to narrow that between now and election day.
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