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Originally Posted by rubecube
Which is the other aspect of it. It's actually probably even more depressing that some 20-25% of Liberal and NDP voters agree with Trump because they're supposed to represent the progressive vote.
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People vote according to a bunch of different values. Economic. Social. Regional. A goodly number of NDP supporters are uneducated and socially-conservative union workers. A lot of Conservatives voters are progressive and urbane white-collar workers who just want to keep more of their paycheque. Quebecers tend to be much more communitarian than the rest of Canada when it comes to economics and the role of government, but they're also far more culturally chauvinistic and wary of immigrants and their foreign practices.
To bring this back to U.S. politics, the Republican party is essentially a coalition of affluent pro-business types, rural small-government types, and angry social conservatives (with some overlap, of course). The angry social conservatives are becoming increasingly frustrated that they never get their way when the Republicans are in power, and that they're just being used as chumps by the plutocrats who run the party. The Tea Party, and now Trump are the vehicle for expressing their dissatisfaction.