Watching America from the outside, it's hard not to ask the obvious question. How the hell did this happen? Why would anyone vote for this guy?
Donald Trump won a majority of white women while running an openly anti-woman and anti-abortion rhetoric.
He made major gains with Latino voters, especially men, while building ICE into a political weapon, platforming racists, and targeting that same community.
LGBTQI plus voters still overwhelmingly vote Democrat. But a small, loud group of gay conservatives continue to back Donald Trump, prioritizing taxes, masculinity, and anti-wokeness politics over queer rights themselves.
Despite the populist branding, lower-income voters remain split with many poor Americans voting against welfare, redistribution, and government aid even when they would directly benefit from it.
So I wanted to understand how this happened. Not abstractly, not morally, but humanly.