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Trump supporters scale the west wall of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6, 2021

FILE - Violent insurrectionists loyal to then President Donald Trump climb the west wall of the the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol has agreed to defer its request for hundreds of pages of records from the Trump administration, bending to the wishes of the Biden White House. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)AP

Since Donald Trump was elected in 2016, I’ve tried hard to understand his appeal. I read books like Hillbilly Elegy, and talked to early supporters, like Chris Christie and Sen. Mike Doherty.

I’ve never found a good answer. I know people were angry at elites, and that makes sense. But why answer that by embracing a billionaire who runs scam charities and universities and made his top priorities a tax cut tilted to the rich, along with a repeal of Obamacare?

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