We’ll have to deal with ‘nihilistic’ Trump voters after the election: George Conway
Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway started his Anti-Psycho PAC in order to warn voters about what he says is Donald Trump's psychological disorders.
However, Conway also seems to have some ideas about the psychological makeup of many Trump supporters.
Conway spoke to former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks on her "Just the Facts" cast via Politicon, where he predicted that Vice President Kamala Harris will win and win big. What will also happen, however, is the likelihood of Trump scoring 75 million votes, and the Harris voters will be forced to reckon with that if they want to bring the country back together.
"But doesn't it scare you that so many people actually believe what he's saying and don't think that he's crazy?" asked Wine-Banks.
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Conway said he's not sure many people believe what Trump is saying, and that's why they're part of MAGA.
"I think no matter what happens, even if she wins in a landslide and gets 330 or 340 electoral votes, which I think is possible as an outside possibility, we're going to be horrified that 75 million people, give or take, will have voted for him," said Conway
"Yes!" exclaimed Wine-Banks.
"I think that many of those people know that he's full of s--t, but they do it because they have deep-seated resentments of people who are different from them and people who they think look down on them," said Conway. "And they also don't want to admit that they're wrong."
He said he thinks those folks are committed to Trump in a "peculiar sort of way."
Conway recalled an interview with a small business owner in New Hampshire who was a "relatively smart guy," a former military officer, and explained that he supports Trump only because he hates all of the people who don't support Trump.
"And it was pointed out to him, 'Okay, but the things you want to do are going to hurt you too,'" Conway recalled in the story. "And he said he didn't care. That's what a lot of Trumpism is. It's this nihilistic desire to do harm to others even if it harms the country or even if it harms themselves."
He called it a "disturbing psychology" and explained that it will continue to exist even if Trump is defeated.
"We're going to have to deal with people who have this mentality and who have been behaving this way and overlooking the misanthropy, and we're going to have to deal with these people," Conway noted.
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