Bunker USA: From true believers to chaos addicts – The 5 types of Trump voters

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Donald Trump once said he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and his supporters wouldn’t care. Not only does polling suggest that could be true – but since he was criminally indicted (not for shooting anyone) his loyalists have stuck by him. Thomas Gift is the founding director of UCL’s centre on US politics and he joins Jacob Jarvis in The Bunker to discuss what he believes are the five types of Trump voters. • “Trump supporters have been likened to a cult … and I don’t think that’s far off.” – Thomas Gift •“Whenever I think about the need for drama Republicans I think about the chaos caucus… they want to blow up the system.” – Thomas Gift www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production: Simon Williams. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
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1:22.0	He believes they are incredibly loyal to him.
1:24.6	The people, my people are so smart. And you know what else they say about my people? The
1:28.5	Pulse. They say, I have the most loyal people. Did you ever see that?
1:32.1	Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth
1:33.6	Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's like incredible.
1:37.6	Scarce. If past polling is to be relied upon, this statement isn't far off reality.
1:42.4	A survey from public policy polling in
1:44.9	2017 found that 45% of Trump voters said they would approve of the former
1:50.2	president shooting someone on Fifth Avenue. only 29% firmly disapproved.
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