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Thank you, Cassie, for posting the link to this very fine and insightful essay. (Civil Comments allows links; you don’t have to hide the dots. It’s one of the few advantages of Civil over Disqus.)

My experience with Trump voters is that they are not motivated by policy or political philosophy. How could they be? Trump doesn’t know anything about policy and he has not thought long enough or deeply enough to develop a coherent political philosophy. I think many Trump voters come to Trump out of a visceral contempt for all things Clinton -- and this, too, has nothing to do with Clinton’s policies or philosophy. For instance, I spoke last week to a man who passionately supports a single payer approach to health care; but he’s going to vote for Trump!