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Here we go

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 I'm back. I miss blogging as a creative outlet, it's an exciting election cycle, and I got enough of a nudge from a friend to dust off the blog, so here goes.  Donald Trump is a felon, a liar, a narcissist, and generally a bad person. His supporters know this and they don't care. They can justify and minimize all of those things in an attempt to rationalize supporting him. For some of his supporters, it's a single issue - guns, abortion, affirmative action, still being mad that Obama ever got elected in the first place and seeking vengeance, whatever. But I think most of Trump's supporters are actually not single issue voters. I think most of his supporters today find a 2nd Trump presidency attractive for the same reasons they found the 1st one appealing: they're mad. There are any number of things in their lives that are not going as they'd hoped, they are struggling to live the middle class life they had hoped for, they're doing all the things their