“All people can look at COVID and not think that this man did not do the right thing.”
“I’m a Georgia voter and I have voted Republican since 2008. Then 2016 happened and I, you know, got into the Trump Train, I guess.
“I grew up in a rural area, so, you know, I get the the draw that Trump was, you know, to rural America. For some weird reason. He spoke to us, you know, he spoke to us. You know, the, you know, a lot of people don’t realize that the notion of the bias in the media has been an underground and underbelly and onservative GOP politics for as long as I can remember, you know, so.
“It made it so easy whenever he came out, you know, and he was like, fake news. That rural America just bought it because we believed it anyway in a weird way, when you had Trump come out, fake news and a fighter was very attractive to rural voters like myself. Felt like finally we had someone that was fighting for us.
“To be honest, I wasn’t terribly upset with his first years. So yeah, first couple years it was kind of all right. Again, the media just kind of played with it, you know, even on the bad stuff that you can look back on now and you’re like, whoa, you know, if you add in the fact of what you grew up with the conservative echo chamber of the media’s bad and the media hates you anyway.
“It was able to con, dilute and, was able to make his stuff not as scary because, you know, he was speaking what we were already thinking. He was just saying it out loud as far as the media. So anything the media said, it was very easy to discredit it because we didn’t trust them anyway. So when they would say something, you know, like find people on both sides or looting and shooting or, you know, the Hispanic Mexicans are rapists and murderers.
“You know, it was easy to discredit it. Then COVID happened, and
“all people can look at COVID and not think that this man did not do the right thing, you know, is crazy to me.”