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What’s the deal with Obama-Trump voters?
And what they tell us about what should be Biden’s priorities
It appears that the Supreme Court has finally put to bed the absurd claims of Trump and his supporters that Joe Biden did not win the election. Thank Goodness for that. Settling the legal questions does not unfortunately reduce the anger of Trump’s most die-hard supporters, who engaged in violent confrontations over the weekend. So much for Antifa being the problem.
Certainly, the people who continue to openly fight Biden’s inevitable ascension to the presidency are the nuttiest of MAGAers. It is shocking to realize how much of the Republican establishment was afraid of this small but vocal group, backed up as they are by Trump’s Twitter feed. Indeed, 120 Republican members of Congress, a solid majority of their conference, signed on to an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to invalidate the votes of millions of people in four states, including my home state of Michigan. As far as I’m concerned, Republicans have now lost all claims on patriotism and moral superiority. They are the modern day equivalent of Confederates.
Arguably, the same tensions that led to the rise of the Confederacy and the Civil War are being expressed by the Trump movement. Research has shown that racism is central to Trump’s appeal, and the debate…
