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<h1 style="text-align: center;">What I heard from Trump Supporters</h1> <h2>[WHAT]</h2> <ol> <li>] by Sam Altman - Altman travels to flyover America to interview Trump supporters, here is what they said.</li> </ol> <h2>[WHY]</h2> <ol> <li>] </li> </ol> <h2>[WHERE]</h2> <ol> <li><strong>] READ THE FULL ARTICLE</strong></li> <ol> <li>] <a href="http://blog.samaltman.com/what-i-heard-from-trump-supporters" target="_blank">http://blog.samaltman.com/what-i-heard-from-trump-supporters</a></li> </ol></ol> <h2>[WHEN]</h2> <ol> <li>] 2017-02-22 </li> </ol> <h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2> <p>After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country. I went to the middle of the country, the middle of the state, and talked to many online.</p> <p>With three exceptions, I found something to like about everyone I talked to (though I strongly disagreed with many of the things they said). Although it shouldn’t have surprised me given the voting data, I was definitely surprised by the diversity of the people I spoke to—I did not expect to talk to so many Muslims, Mexicans, Black people, and women in the course of this project.</p> <p>Almost everyone I asked was willing to talk to me, but almost none of them wanted me to use their names—even people from very red states were worried about getting “targeted by those people in Silicon Valley if they knew I voted for him”.</p> <p>I wanted to understand <strong>] what Trump voters liked</strong> and <strong>] didn’t like about the president</strong>, <strong>] what they were nervous about</strong>, what they <strong>] thought about the left’s response</strong> so far, and <strong>] most importantly, what would convince them not to vote for him in the future.</strong> </p> <p>TLDR " = “You all can defeat Trump next time, but not if you keep mocking us, refusing to listen to us, and cutting us out. It’s Republicans, not Democrats, who will take Trump down.”</p> <p><strong>what they liked</strong></p> <ol> <li><strong>] “He is not politically correct.”</strong> Note: This sentiment came up a lot, probably in at least a third of the conversations I had.</li> <li><strong>] “He says true but unpopular things. If you can’t talk about problems, you can’t fix them.”</strong></li> <li><strong>] “He is anti-abortion.”</strong> Note: This sentiment came up a lot. A number of people I spoke to said they didn’t care about anything else he did and would always vote for whichever candidate was more anti-abortion.</li> <li><strong>] “I like that he puts the interests of Americans first. American policy needs to be made from a position of how Americans benefit from it, as that is the role of government.”</strong></li> <li><strong>] “He is anti-immigration.”</strong> Note: This sentiment came up a lot. The most surprising takeaway for me how little it seemed to be driven by economic concerns, and how much it was driven by fears about “losing our culture”, “safety”, “community”, and a general Us-vs.-Them mentality. </li> <li><strong>] “He will preserve our culture.</strong> Preservation of culture is considered good in most cases. What’s wrong with preserving the good parts of American culture?”</li> <li><strong>] “He’s not Hillary Clinton.”</strong></li> <li><strong>] “I’m Mexican. I support the wall.</strong> The people who have stayed have destroyed Mexico, and now they want to get out and cause damage here. We need to protect our borders, but now any policy is like that is called racist. Trump was the first person willing to say that out loud.”</li> </ol> <p><strong>not to vote again</strong></p> <ol> <li>] “<strong>War</strong> would be unforgivable.”</li> <li>] “If the <strong>Russia</strong> thing were true, I’d turn against him. Why don’t y’all focus on that instead of his tweets?”</li> <li>] “Give us <strong>a better option</strong>, and we’ll be happy. But it needs to be a moderate—Sanders won’t win.”</li> <li>] “I’ll happily vote for someone else. There’s a lot I hate about Trump. But <strong>our lives are basically destroyed</strong>, and he was <strong>the first person to talk about fixing that</strong>.” </li> <li>] “Generally hard to say. Extreme <strong>corruption</strong> would do it.”</li> <li>] Second person in the same conversation: “I don’t care if he’s corrupt. Y’all voted for Hillary and she was <strong>the most corrupt</strong> candidate of all time.”</li> <li>] </li> </ol> <h2>[HOW-TO]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h2>[REFERENCE]</h2> <ol> <li>] # # - CREATE-article# # - </li> <li>] SRC = best-of-HN-2017-02-22, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13697771" target="_blank">comments</a></li> </ol> <h1 style="text-align: center;">comment mine</h1> <p>] </p> <h1 style="text-align: center;"> </h1>