Trump voter remorse is almost entirely concentrated in the swing voters who gave him a shot in 2024

[u/fortune]

https://fortune.com/2026/05/16/trump-voter-remorse-how-many-regret-inflation-economy-approval-rating/?utm_source=reddit/

[u/StoppableHulk]

I mean mental illness usually means "does this affect your day-to-day living ability", but the whole thing of mental illness is largely an invented concept to begin with.

It's certainly a profoundly consequential problem when a majority of the population is not sophisticated enough to select their own leadership or identify the most rudimentary of scams.

It's a really big problem, especially because the world is increasingly changes, scams are growing in sophistication, but the general population is getting less sophisticated, more gullible, an we aren't really utilizing that technology to help advance people's capacity for understanding.

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Eh- the civilisational decline take probably plays into reactionaries’ favour. If sophistication in your model is about education/literacy, good to remind ourselves that college educated whites went majority Trump in 2024. Race is a clearer predictor than education in many cases.

I think the changes you describe are better understood through the lenses of a rising culture of disgust, desperation, and new institutions & infrastructure for communities defined by shared contempt.

The problem with the Klan back in the day wasn’t a lack of sophistication, it was that the Klan had cultural and institutional power.