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Did you support Trump but now want to abjure him?
We are hardly the only family struggling with that Trump Voter relative. And we’re hardly the only family who continues to ask that fatal question, “Why on earth would anyone vote for Trump?” Indeed, I spent much of the four … Continue reading
Posted in political campaigns, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Catholic Church, Dunning-Kruger, Facebook, Galileo, hypervigilance, Jan 6 insurrection, Liz Cheney, Need for Chaos Metric, swollen amygdala, Trump voters
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I got issues: Why did people vote for Trump? Hypervigilance
We’ve done Reason One — The Dunning-Kruger Effect. Now let’s do… Reason Two Why Someone Might Have Voted For Trump The study underlying this reason is the most exciting and soothing thing I’ve found. If you, like me, have been … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged amygdala, Current Biology, hypersensitivity, hypervigilance, Koch Bros, NRA, Science, the conservative brain, Trump fear-mongering
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