Thousands of people showed up to a Trump rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania yesterday – farmers, teachers, truck drivers, doctors, grandmothers, people with disabilities, veterans. People of all types arrived to see their president, in the most personal sense possible. Even a small group of Haredi Jews from New York, and members of the Amish and Mennonite sects.
They all came as if it was a football game, wearing scarves and holding signs like they were at a party (and by the way, most were wearing masks, in contrast to the stereotype of Trump supporters). And they all get excited when you tell them you're from Israel. When Trump talked, they waved their hats. John, who was wearing a Trump hat and mask, told me, "If Trump loses, everyone here should leave America."
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Trump was received here with fervor that's hard to describe. This president, who people like to call "divisive," "controversial," "hatemongering" – is also one of the beloved. Maybe not by everyone, certainly not by the tastemakers, but in his way, he is uniting deep America, rural America, America that is connect to the values of family, the Bible, and patriotism.
That America heaps love on Trump, among other reasons because he says out loud what people are thinking in the age of political correctness. He gives them a voice, representation, legitimacy, at a time when most media outlets cast them as racist, stupid, shallow rabble. When you meet them, you discover that they aren't exactly the dubious marginalized characters that they appear as in magazine articles about lawless militias or white supremacists thugs – they are Americas, working people, producers, entrepreneurs, members of the community, who love their country and think differently than the Democrats do. That is all they are guilty of.
Four years ago, Pennsylvania voted for a Republican candidate, Trump, for the first time since 1988. From what we saw on Monday, we could see a repeat this time.
The media portrays Trump and his supporters with contempt, and it seems as if a lot of Americans hold the media in equal contempt, and support Trump. In their eyes, he is nothing less than an American hero, and no matter what happens, and unlike the very negative media portrayal, he is for them one of the most popular presidents in history, if not the most popular of all.
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