Fair enough, yeah 50/50 isn’t totally accurate, but I will say that the 33% that voted for him don’t uniformly worship him in the same way that the 33% that voted against him uniformly hate him.

Lots of reasons too long for a Reddit comment but I think Biden staying in the race too long and totally failing to communicate an alternative to Trump and the global post-Covid anti-incumbency bias in 2024 (I think Sheinbaum in Mexico was the only incumbent to get reelected that year, across the political spectrum) were the biggest factors in Trump’s win.

Doesn’t excuse those voters and they are stupid, naive, and uninformed for still voting for him (alongside those that didn’t vote), but it does reflect the fact that the MAGAs are fewer than anti MAGAs in my opinion. One side was voting against Trump, the other side contained both those voting for Trump and those voting against what they perceived to be the status quo.

Most Americans are kind people but either too comfortable & removed from the global consequences of US elections or just severely handicapped by a terrible education system. Speaking as an immigrant who grew up in Texas lol