If you were an Obama voter, take a sec to reflect on how your opinion about him evolved from 2008 to 2016. Not how it went from a binary 1 to a 0, just how it matured and evolved. Why is it so hard to believe that the same thing isn& #39;t happening for a segment of 2016 Trump voters?
Two things can be true. Trumpist media has created a cult-like atmosphere around him in which he can do no wrong and where people are insulated from countervailing information. And also, each individual person has their own distinctive relationship to Trump that can shift.
It& #39;s a foundational maxim for historians that people are complicated and unpredictable. History is comprised of large forces and can be written about in generalizations, but those generalizations frequently crumble when you drill down to look at individuals.
62 million individuals pulled the lever for Trump in 2016. He& #39;s not even tried to recruit more people into his camp. Meanwhile, Fox News reaches 3.5 million viewers per day, barely 5% of that 62 million number. https://www.foxnews.com/media/highest-viewership-network-history-msnbc-cnn-2020">https://www.foxnews.com/media/hig...