I Know an average old school Democrat about 80-ish. He’s not a dumb person IQ wise and is middle class successful in life.
He falls for anything that feeds a built-in mindset from his past.
He thought Trump could be kicked off the ballot in CO. or anywhere because he heard the 14th Amend. said certain things that surely must apply to an “insurrectionist” like D.T.
I predicted to him that - If I meaning me, know that has zero to do with Trump being liable to be kicked off Presidential Primary ballots, then I predict the Supreme Court will rule accordingly because surely THEY know. Then they ruled 9-0 exactly that way.
This outcome quieted him down somewhat afterwards, but at some point he voiced that surely Trump would be criminally convicted and end up in jail.
I didn’t debate his point with him. I just said, “You want to lay down a money bet on that?”. After what had happened with the Supreme Court the guy just got quiet at that point and hasn’t confronted me about Trump since then.
He still feels the same way about it all as before because that’s just the way he is.
A lot of old people are like him. They're "tolerant" but not "woke". So they seem "normal".
I think they vote Democrat out of habit.