yeah, I agree
there was a strong element of "fuck the establishment, they're responsible for this shittiness" in the trump vote too, (though as with brexit I though they were backing the wrong pony if they wanted to rebel, but it was certainly sold to them as a way to do this). But if they weren't rightwingers to begin with they embraced those arguments as you do when you join a tribe. I saw it in Brazil, when people I knew who were centrists or centre right voted for the neo-facist bolsonaro, as they were fed up with 16 years of an increasingly corrupt left wing government and thought he would be tough on corruption. But fast forward a year and they'd taken on those extremist views by the mere act of joining that tribe. Attacks entrench views. And Bolso was having one of his ministers literally caught shoving bribe cash up his ass as the police raided his home
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