This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and the New Yorker.

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, I'm David Remnick. This presidential election is to say the least confusing and

anxiety-provoking in a lot of ways. At the beginning of 2021, it seemed like America might be turning a new page.

Instead, our political life feels like a strange dream we can't wake up from.

A couple of weeks ago, we asked you what's on your minds and

what's still confounding you about the whole election season and dozens of you

wrote to us from Signal Mountain Tennessee, Salem Virginia Eugene, Oregon, Dolores, Colorado, all over the place.

You ask some very complicated questions about the Electoral College and campaign strategy, and

some questions that might seem simpler but really don't have simple answers.

So I'm going to tackle just a few of your questions today with help from my esteemed colleagues,

staff writers at the New Yorker covering politics in

different ways from different perspectives and we'll shed some light where we can.

So let's begin. One question many of you are dying to understand is a variation of this one from a listener named Jane and Jane writes this,

I remain profoundly puzzled why nearly half of Americans, according to polling, continue to

support Donald Trump now four years after the January 6th attack on the capital,

that they view him as their Redeemer when everything he does and says shows himself to be a

self-serving power monger with no respect for the law.

Well, where to begin on that one? Why does half the country and maybe more support Donald

Trump? Well, I'm going to start with Andrew Morantz, who's written about politics and

extremism. Andrew, what say you?

What's so appealing about Trump at this point?

Maybe not in spite of, but perhaps because of his seeming disregard for the law?

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