This presidential election is to say the

political scene and 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 asked 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 Capitol, that they view him as their redeemer when

everything he does and says shows himself to be a self-serving powermonger

with no respect for the law. Well, where to begin on that one? Why does half the country

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