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> but please don't conflate the current administration with the whole American people.

No, never. I have enough experience on that matter due to where I live and due to friends I have all over Europe and US.

People and the administration of the country they happen to born/live in are completely detached in my mind.

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Who do you think votes in the administation of a country?

Yes, people, and not all my friends and relatives might share the same values with me. That's OK.

However, sometimes people get more than what they bargained for, and I'm sure some people are in that situation right now.

Look, I'm from a country which is going through the exact process. It's much more complicated than that. It'd fill books.

I also have friends and relatives with different values, it's very hard to relate to them voting Republican again after what we went through with COVID. Had the party nominated someone else, maybe, but doing this again after all we knew already?

There’s always been a streak of self-loathing and nihilism in the US. Some kind of imposter syndrome writ large and handled with fake arrogance and real terror.

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