Sorry, yes. 50% of the voting population. You're right. But I absolutely do not believe that. There's no politician out there, that fulfills your every wish.
It's the same as saying as 25% of the population supports storing confidential emails on their personal phones, because their candidate did that. It doesn't make sense and it's a generalization.
If Trump starts to make laws that makes it legal to "electrocute" anyone, we can talk.
No matter who you vote for, there are bounds to be things that you can't agree with. Unless you are voting for yourself, that is.
Stating that everyone who voted for Trump is a supporter of electrocution, deportation and what have we is, in my opinion, really ignorant and definitely not true.
edit: And wtf. Only 50% of the people eligible to vote, actually votes?!
Someone on twitter posted that "People who hate trump took him literally, and not seriously, people who voted for him took him seriously, but not literally."
I saw a lot of this where "scandal" and "shocking" stories were published about what trump said because they took the literal meaning of the words he used.
But if you talked to a supporter they would say "well that's not actually going to happen" or "that's just rhetoric, he can't actually do that". And their feeling was that it was hyperbolic statements being made to put an exclamation point on a more milder policy.
"We must block all muslims" as an extreme, attention grabbing way of saying "We have to be careful about what refugees we take and how we screen them".
"They're sending rapists from mexico" as an extreme, attention grabbing way of saying "We need to be more careful about who comes over the border from mexico and send back the people who commit heinous crimes while they are here illegally".
I think this is key to why all the negative stories fell hollow. Sometimes it was because those readers were racist shitbags and actually thought that we could deport 11 million people. Sometimes it's because they see the things that all people running for office say as false and hyped up versions of what will actually happen.
I heard this so many times from my family, who were incredulous that he would actually be able to accomplish his outrageous claims, and if prompted would tell you that they wouldn't want 11 million deportations or all muslims to be blocked.
It's Trump's negotiation tactic. If someone is selling something for $500, you tell them you'll pay $100, because you know you want it for $350. You start with the extreme and work down until you come to something that you can both agree on. Unfortunately this is totally irresponsible and shameful as a presidential candidate because in this case saying you'll pay $100 is actually saying stuff that incites and enables a racist, hateful demographic that actually believes that those things will happen.
What I hope happens is that now that he's got his deal and got what he wanted, he can start to avoid having to make these outrageous statements and policies and actually try to work with both sides. We will find out soon enough, and I'm sure we will know quickly if its best case or worst case for the next 4 years.
