Some people get offended when I say that all Republican voters (or Brexit voters, or Putin/Bolsonaro/Orban supporters, it's all the same) are idiots. You shouldn't generalize, they say. These critics just don't understand how those political movements operate. So let me explain.
Remember those stupid Nigerian spam letters? Everybody laughs at them. "How can anybody be stupid enough to get scammed like that?" Well, these letters are stupid by design. If you answer them, a human operator has to handle you, and he doesn't want to waste his time on you if you are not stupid enough to send him your money as the scam takes its course.
Republicans, Brexiteers, Putin etc. work the same way. They lie all the time, constantly change their stories as their lies become exposed, and regularly sacrifice unpopular categories of people (gays, Blacks, immigrants) to stay afloat. So they need a support base with (a) low intelligence, (b) no long-term memory, and (c) hate-based view of the world.
This is why their recruiting process is designed to pre-select hateful idiots. You have to be remarkably stupid to believe that a small government can do its job better than a big one, or that you'll have a better life if billionaires don't pay taxes, or that Hillary ran a child prostitution ring through a pizza joint, or that all your problems will be solved if children crossing the border will be put in cages and sold for adoption.
I hope now you understand why I am right when I mention that all Republican voters, Brexit supporters etc. are hateful idiots. They were pre-selected under these criteria, that's all.
