Why Trump Supporters Think They Sound Smart
You already know what it looks like.
Someone at Thanksgiving starts talking about the border. Or the economy. Or whatever Fox News ran that morning. They say something short. Something confident. Something that sounds like it was pulled directly off a Facebook meme because it was.
And for about ten seconds, they feel like the smartest person in the room.
Then someone asks a follow up question. Not even a hard one. Just something like, “What do you mean by that?” or “Can you explain how that works?”
And it’s over.
The confidence disappears. The eye contact breaks. They either change the…
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