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You Really Can Fool Many Of The People All Of The Time

How the US Republican Party’s assiduous targeting of low-IQ voters has changed everything

7 min readApr 1, 2025
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The polling organization YouGov has just released data that shows how the attitudes of US citizens have been shaped by the endless lies of the blustering mental cripple Trump. Not surprisingly, Republican voters have to a significant degree bought all of Trump’s pathetic infantile lies without hesitation. While only 6% of Republican voters had a negative opinion of Canada in 2020, now 25% believe Trump’s sniveling whining babble about Canada being a “nasty enemy.” When it comes to the country that pulls Trump’s strings and makes him dance to its tune, only 10% of Republican voters back in 2020 thought the USA and Russia were natural allies; today 28% of Republican voters are favorably disposed toward Putin’s dictatorship while 29% of Republicans think Ukraine is “the enemy.” Finally, 29% of Republicans now also believe the European Union is “the enemy.”

Which just goes to show the benefits of relentlessly targeting society’s most ignorant and most intellectually stunted members.

Ever since the Nixon campaign of 1968 in which the then-new technique of demographic segmentation was utilized for the first time in politics, the US Republican Party has pursued…

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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