Perhaps I should say that they aren't as likely to be racist as alt righers.
Trump voters are not a monolithic group.
Lefties aren't either.
The thing Americans need to recognize (as in: NEVER FORGET for a moment) is that independents are now by far the largest voting block.
The two major parties are shrinking. The Republican Party has all but disappeared now.
It is the Trump Party now and it will continue to be the Trump Party even after Trump is no longer around or in office.
People who voted for Trump might be people who just didn't like Hillary, or despised her outright.
They might be people who didn't know much about him beyond his TV visibility, so they bought his pitch.
They might be ordinary Republicans, Trump is the Republican candidate so we should vote for him.
They might be conservative independents who decided that whether they liked him or not didn't matter, his supposed conservative bonafides did.
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And there are the fringe outliers on the alt-Right/far Right who instinctively perked up their ears at the sound of familiar authoritarian tropes that they identify with, and their instincts told them that their ship had finally come in.
That last group ARE indeed the bigoted, xenophobic paranoids who see the enemy everywhere. In the Fifties, the Red Scare was imprinted in the DNA of their parents and grandparents, and transferred to them on an almost cellular level. They see Communists under every bed, in the trash can, behind the fridge, on every streetcorner. They see ethnic people as fifth column invaders who are dead set on diluting their white Xtian identity values, miscegenating and interbreeding, and they interpret that as a sign that their tribe is under attack.
Those different people aren't like them, they are the "others" and as such they need to BE "othered" out of existence and the threat must be neutralized. These are also likely to be conspiracy minded people who see an embedded enemy plot in practically everything.
The art and music of the outsiders is surely a plot to indoctrinate the youth of America, the white Xtian youth, that is.
The styles and linguistic trends are an indicator that America is being threatened.
And most of all, these outsiders are almost universally regarded almost across the board by this last group as lazy, criminal, and anti-American.
At the very least, most or all of them are just trash, losers that no one wants, but even they are also a threat.
Trump is, for them, quite literally a white strongman astride a white steed, a superhero.
