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Originally Posted by Crawford
Not directly, no. Former Soviets in the U.S. usually aren't particularly nationalistic towards their former homelands, and Putin isn't really popular. At the same time these neighborhoods are extremely hard-right politically in recent elections, and are huge Trumpist neighborhoods.
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it's just a lack of general critical thinking skills. it's the way they were raised to be honest.
a lot of people say they're anti-authoritarian but they actually crave the comfort and predictability of the rules and structures of such regimes. independent thinking, unpredictability, change, abstraction etc are terrifying to a lot of people.
so they gravitate towards authoritarian esque people and politics in complete ignorance of the dissonance.