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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.