Media Matters’ Angelo Carusone Says Trump Voters ‘Don’t Believe in Democracy as a Principle’

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CARUSONE: "But at its core, this is a discussion about democracy. I’m not so blinded to think that they all are deeply pro-democracy. Many of them don’t believe in democracy as a principle and they want something more autocratic and authoritarian. But there’s another part — a much larger part — that actually believe that a vote for Donald Trump is a vote for democracy because they have validated and internalized the idea that there’s an anti-democratic secret cabal that is actually preventing their desires and exercise of democratic power from being implemented and put in place and that only Trump can restore their powers. That's the part that's so frightening about this, is that it not just means that Project 2025 becomes more of a reality and that a lot of the things we see are going after opponents and everything else. In their minds, in many people's minds, that will be acceptable because they have it coming to them.”