# Would A Conservative and/or Trump Supporter Rationally Explain This? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 30, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-a-conservative-and-or-trump-supporter-rationally-explain-this/850702 "2020-03-30T21:26:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-a-conservative-and-or-trump-supporter-rationally-explain-this/850702/5 "2020-03-30T22:01:51Z")
To understand the Trump mindset, just take a look at some of the posts written by Dopers here (and I don’t mean this as a “both sides do it,” but just as a "look at it from their shoes): Here on this Straight Dope, [we’ve had people claim that almost nothing bad about a Democrat could deter them from voting for that (D) candidate against Trump:](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=870934) > [@How bad a scandal for you to \*not\* vote for Trump's 2020 Democratic opponent?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-a-scandal-for-you-to-not-vote-for-trumps-2020-democratic-opponent/829704/3): > > The Dems could run the rotting corpse of Hitler and I wouldn’t hesitate a second to vote for him. It. Whatever. > [@How bad a scandal for you to \*not\* vote for Trump's 2020 Democratic opponent?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-a-scandal-for-you-to-not-vote-for-trumps-2020-democratic-opponent/829704/2): > > Absolutely nothing could stop me from voting against the current president. > [@How bad a scandal for you to \*not\* vote for Trump's 2020 Democratic opponent?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-a-scandal-for-you-to-not-vote-for-trumps-2020-democratic-opponent/829704/17): > > I would pretty much have to see the Democrat nominee feeding puppies and kittens into a wood chipper on the news every night for weeks on end all the while running on the platform of “I’m gonna tax you bastards back to the stone age!” > [@How bad a scandal for you to \*not\* vote for Trump's 2020 Democratic opponent?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-a-scandal-for-you-to-not-vote-for-trumps-2020-democratic-opponent/829704/18): > > Nothing that fits into the category of ‘scandal’ could get me to vote against the Dem nominee. > [@How bad a scandal for you to \*not\* vote for Trump's 2020 Democratic opponent?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-a-scandal-for-you-to-not-vote-for-trumps-2020-democratic-opponent/829704/28): > > Nothing imaginable would get me not to vote for anyone other than (Trump’s) opponent unless that opponent could somehow managed to exceed this very, very high bar. The rotting corpse of Hitler would at least not be taking active malicious action. I would literally vote for the office to be left empty rather than allow Trump to continue in it. > [@How bad a scandal for you to \*not\* vote for Trump's 2020 Democratic opponent?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-a-scandal-for-you-to-not-vote-for-trumps-2020-democratic-opponent/829704/43): > > I would vote for the rotting corpse of Charlie Manson over Trump. > [@How bad a scandal for you to \*not\* vote for Trump's 2020 Democratic opponent?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-a-scandal-for-you-to-not-vote-for-trumps-2020-democratic-opponent/829704/68): > > The Democratic candidate could dig up both my dead grandmothers and sexually desecrate the bodies repeatedly and publicly, and I would still vote for him or her over Chump. > [@How bad a scandal for you to \*not\* vote for Trump's 2020 Democratic opponent?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-a-scandal-for-you-to-not-vote-for-trumps-2020-democratic-opponent/829704/95): > > There is NO scandal that would cause me to not vote for the Democrat in 2020. My point not being as a “gotcha,” but rather, to illustrate that…that’s exactly how Trump voters feel, just in reverse. Blue-Red tribalism is so intense these days that just about nothing one’s own side does can be so bad as to make Blue jump over to Team Red or vice versa. That’s why Trump voters aren’t abandoning their guy. They’ll stick with him to the bitter end. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-a-conservative-and-or-trump-supporter-rationally-explain-this/850702)._