There's a really good lens for understanding this called Spiral Dynamics, a scientific model of the evolution/development of consciousness which is the work of

There's a really good lens for understanding this called Spiral Dynamics, a scientific model of the evolution/development of consciousness which is the work of Clare Graves. If you understand that Trump is at the red/orange level of consciousness, and so is a huge chunk of the American population, it's obvious why they will vote for him. The stage red / stage orange worldview is pretty clearly what conservative Americans operate on, (and many are very on stage blue also). The majority of liberal Americans are operating on stages orange and green. And these are still all tier 1 of 2 tiers in the model.