{"id":60183,"date":"2023-07-05T15:42:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T19:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=60183"},"modified":"2023-07-05T16:10:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T20:10:19","slug":"the-answer-to-the-central-question-of-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=60183","title":{"rendered":"The answer to the central question of our lives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why? Why the craziness ever since November 2016?<\/p>\n

Over the past seven years, I’ve spent considerable time trying to figure out why anybody I knew would vote for Trump. And I came up with quite a few scientific and quasi-scientific explanations, which satisfied me for a time.<\/p>\n

Why did anybody I know vote for Trump? Why would anybody still be supporting the madness?<\/p>\n

There was one central suspicion a lot of us had. Today I found this tweet from Luke Zaleski, the legal affairs editor at Cond\u00e9 Nast. It answers every question:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I don\u2019t think you could overstate how completely Obama broke their minds. The fact that a black man was the most powerful person in the world for eight years and was popular and largely successful absolutely destroyed white power mythology and psychology and was their apocalypse.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why? Why the craziness ever since November 2016? Over the past seven years, I’ve spent considerable time trying to figure out why anybody I knew would vote for Trump. And I came up with quite a few scientific and quasi-scientific … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9432,8220,6979,8884,9743,1095,5800,1175,2902],"tags":[10109,10108,3216,1172,10110],"class_list":["post-60183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-good-things-happening","category-guns-in-the-u-s-of-a","category-jan-6","category-journalism","category-politics","category-racism","category-the-facts-of-life","category-trump-stuff","tag-conde-nast","tag-luke-zaleski","tag-president-obama","tag-trump","tag-white-power-mythology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t