"Trump holds cultlike control over Republican voters. They aren’t blank slates. They know what the struggle for economic and racial justice is about. They know, too, what Democrats are talking about when they go on about expanding access to health care and reducing prescription drug prices, or confronting the climate crisis, or advancing racial and gender equity, or treating immigrants with dignity and decency. And they know what they don’t like about any of that 'liberal or 'progressive' stuff, including those proposing it.
"So, when it comes to elections, bear in mind what’s really at stake. Donald Trump’s name will not appear on any midterm election ballot.
"The challenge is to turn out more voters who want the country to keep moving forward and upward than voters bent on empowering candidates to stand in for Trump and all he represents." -- Colbert King in the Washington Post, providing the Occam's razor explanation of Republican voters: "Voters tell us who they are by who they vote for." This is in contrast to a recent cottage industry of Post commentary by, for example, Republican publisher Gary Abernathy ("Don't call Republicans the cultists that they are!") and "analyst/ apologist" Eve Fairbanks ("Republicans can too change their minds about Trump!"). No links for them!
You are what you eat, and you are what you vote for.
