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Nearly a quarter of Republicans say classified docs charges make them more likely to support Trump: poll

thehill.com Nearly a quarter of Republicans say classified docs charges make them more likely to support Trump: poll

More than 20 percent of Republicans surveyed said certain criminal charges against former President Trump have made them more likely to support him in the 2024 election, according to a new Ipsos po…

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Nearly a quarter of Republicans say classified docs charges make them more likely to support Trump: poll

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Nearly a quarter of Republicans say classified docs charges make them more likely to support Trump: poll

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"I love how he commits crimes openly and shares American national secrets with anyone he can aggrandize or enrich himself by."
Trump supporters really are just the worst people.
- Not just the worst people but failed human beings. They lack any redeeming qualities to make them near human. There is no saving them, no redemption, no undoing what damage they have willingly accepted to themselves.
  
  I wouldn't go around and start claiming any group "lacks qualities to make them human". Dehumanizing people doesn't work out well, ever.
  
  As others have said, they are basically cultists. Cultists are people who have been taken advantage of for their naivety and can be saved.
  
  i have more sympathy than anything else for them. i see them as a very sad lot, who desperately need psychiatric counseling and for many, an actual education.
  dehumanizing them dehumanizes you
- he's such a patriot. The biggest patriot.
  and he can get away with it in broad daylight!

There is likely nothing in this reality capable of swaying these 20+% of folks from not voting for their fascist leader. This "more likely" garbage is just click-bait for the for-profit media.

Sincere question: does this statistic represent the sentiment that they A. like that Trump is a security risk to national interests or B. see this indictment as further proof that he's actually the messiah who was close to unearthing JKF Jr and QAnon stuff, so clearly he was thisclose to draining the swamp?
I've said it before and I'll say it again: what is the role that Oppositional Defiance Disorder is playing into such a huge number of people??
- Oppositional Defiance Disorder
  Oooo I love learning a term that perfectly describes something I previously couldn’t!!
  ETA: Oh my.
  Oppositional defiant disorder (Also called: ODD).
  A disorder in a child marked by defiant and disobedient behavior to authority figures.
  Bruh, “in a child”? These are full grown adults!
  Some children with ODD outgrow the condition by age eight or nine. But about half of them continue to experience symptoms of ODD through adulthood. People with ODD report feeling angry all of the time, and about 40 percent of them become progressively worse and develop antisocial personality disorder.
  Wow. WOW. So many things in the world just made so much more sense to me in the last 5 minutes. Holy shit.
  
  I used to live in a house with a lot of drifters. There was a young woman (24 years old) that I roomed with who, when she would go out for the day and I would say, "Have a great day!" she would snarl back, "Don't tell me what to do!"
  Like 5% ironic but 95% sincere. It was wild.
  
  I teach a student with ODD. It’s weird - he likes my class and can easily do the work, but he wants to spend the first 5-10 minutes giving me shit about how it’s stupid and “why do I have to do this?” If you respond to any of the comments, he will get in a full blown argument with you on why he should not have to do the work. It’s like he just likes arguing.
- They believe the trial is nothing but his political enemies, the dems/libs/antifa/blm/Mexicans/commies/satanists/whatever, trying to drag him down for bullshit reasons, so they just have to support him harder.
  
  That's my interpretation as well.

The Trump Cult.

Definitely not a cult /s

Meh... anyone who feels that way was already fully supporting him anyway.

So 80% said they would not support trump regardless of the criminal charges?
- The other Republicans are either going to maintain their support, or will be less likely to support.