I *do* have problems with Biden but I also appreciate a lot of what he has done. So it's a mixed bag for me. But what "forces" me to vote for him is my concern for another 4 years of Trump, who I have a LOT of problems with and can't think of a single thing he did that I can appreciate.

As for my comment about the fanatic support that Trump gets from bigots... I was clearly referring to bigots... as in, what my sentence actually says. Just because he gets fanatic support from bigots doesn't mean that only bigots support him.

But since you're bringing up this false dilemma, I'm going to quantify it. I think that his 2016 deficit in the popular vote was only 3 million because there were a LOT of Americans that are NOT bigots that voted for him for other reasons. But I think that after 4 years of his presidency a LOT of those voters changed their minds about him, which may help explain why his deficit in 2020 increased to 8 million votes.

I think the more we learn about Trump the more he depends on bigotry to continue supporting him. If I had to guess, I would say his support in 2016 was 40% driven by bigotry and in 2020 it was maybe 70%. Since then with all his election denial BS and his criminal cases, I would guess that 90% of the people still standing by his side like good little soldiers are in fact bigots.

That doesn't mean these bigots are all the type that would lynch black people (although some of them are). Many of them are what my friend calls "polite bigots" which was a reference to my own mother, a British conservative who is outwardly respectful toward everyone but struggled when my brother married a Jew and when Prince Harry married a women carrying black DNA.

So bigotry runs a broad spectrum... it basically applies to any form of prejudice, whether intentional or ingrained... From those who commit hate crimes to those who would prefer that the government do the dirty work of keeping "other people" in "other places".

90% at least... I would bet on it.

I think there is a growing number of Americans that are starting to see Trump for the crook that he has always been. He STILL hasn't won a popular vote which is the true indicator of the people's will... He lost it by 3 million in 2016 and 8 million in 2020.

As for what influence the indictments have... I think it can go either way. One one hand, people know that good people generally don't get indicted. On the other hand, there is also a growing number of people in America that don't trust the government and might think Trump is being unfairly targeted, which might encourage them to support Trump.

I'm not even sure if a conviction would be any different, given the fanatic support that he gets from bigots that would rather see the Republic give up it's principle of equality and "justice for all" than to see their white supremacy being compromised.