Everyone that voted for trump, knew what they were getting. If you tell me it was the economy, I am calling Bullshit.
It was bigotry, selfishness, hate, lack of morals and lack of character and unpatriotic.

For many, it's a gut level balancing of perceived good and bad, and then making a choice. Many times on bad information. Many times based on their own prejudice. Prejudice that varies person to person, even among us, and drives what we perceive. Some actually are evil by our definition and hate drives them more than anything, but that's certainly not true for all who voted Trump. It's soft, social science, so it's complicated and messy.

Simple and easy to divide people into two nice, neat boxes. Human nature to do so and I do it all the time. Certainly feels good to lump every single one of Trump's voters into the Abject Evil box. But that's neither factual or useful. Outside of physics, the natural world, that we are very much a part of, does continuums. It doesn't do digital. Certainly true for anything to do with the psychology and sociology of humans.

So was it hate, racism, misogyny, economic angst, the moon is in the seventh house or whatever? The answer is yes. To varying degrees. Depending on who you ask and how you ask.

When all their young people move to a bigger city to find work, Republicans who voted for Trump to deport the Haitians will blame Democrats for their failing city and loss of jobs.

One thing media could do that it never does is a true analysis of federal programs. Here are the promises and goals of a piece of legislation. A year later, here is what has happened, including both the intended and unintended effects. A rational cause-effect analysis of most federal legislation would be of great benefit to voters. As a good example, the media rarely reported the effects of Trump’s 2017 tax cut. Occasionally an article would mention that in added several trillions to the federal debt. What about the jobs promised? What about the actual tax savings for the muddle class and poor? How much of the benefit went to different groups of people?

Such analyses take time and effort, which us shat reporters used to do. Now they just rehash whatever Trump says and call it done.