What Do Voters See in Trump? DW News Germany

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What Do Voters See in Trump? – DW – 02/23/2024
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The closing remarks of the video are scary.

https://youtu.be/LX860QuWtpI

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I think you mean all of the remarks (that I could tolerate) are scary.

It’s disturbing that the US is so divided. The wheels are falling off the wagon.

True. It's fascinatingly scary listening to their mental gymnastics of why they support Trump.

The scary part for me is not the Presidency. It's that these sorts of gymnastics are not isolated to their politics. It's that they actually believe that they are right. And if anyone opposes them is not worth considering. It's a total divide in even seeing another person's perspective as equalily valid.

Lefty American with some righty acquaintances. I’m able to crack their mental images of certain insane topics, like immigration, taxes, and birth control. But they’re immediately sucked back in when they go home and run on Facebook, OANN, Fox and similar online/media. It’s really frustrating, but I’m gonna keep pressing where I see soft spots. Social engineering for politics is possible, but it’s very steep uphill battle.

Someone that lets them be stupid, violent assholes.

He is to poor stupid people; their idea of what a smart rich person is like.

He hates the things they hate, and gives them permission to mock and hate. He tells them that they CAN say those things the left says you can’t say.

Of course there's no sign of this energy on the Biden side.

That conservative energy is based on delusion and selfishness.

Democrats want the equal opportunity and civil rights in a just society, conservatives want to restrict the liberty of or hurt other people until they bow to their histrionic "ideals".

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Thanks to Fox (Faux) News and Rupert Murdoch

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Jasmyn Jordan is a young, black student of political science and international relations at the University of Iowa.

In the 1970s, Jack Gilchrist served in the US air force.

Now 69, he and his son run a metal fabricating company.

He grew up in Mexico and today he has his own radio show.

All three are fervent Trump supporters.

We went to Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada to meet them and find out why they believe he should be the next president.


The original article contains 191 words, the summary contains 82 words. Saved 57%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

... Terrible

This is summarizing the video description which is lacking information in the first place. They want you to watch the video for any detail. It would be cool if the bot could summarize videos using captions too.

Oh, I didn't and can't see a video.

Edit: somehow I missed the YouTube link.