Study Shows Exceptionally Lonely People Gravitate Toward The Far Right, Trumpism & QAnon


Why do people who are more socially disconnected grativate toward Trump and the far-right?
A September 2020 poll revealed that 1 in 5 Americans report having no one in their core social network, with a follow-up article stating that these socially disconnected voters were "far more likely to view Trump positively and support his reelection than those with more robust personal networks."

In a piece for The Washington Post, Bender wrote that Trump’s "most hardcore rallygoers" at a June 2019 Trump re-election event he attended in central Florida were “mostly older White men and women who lived paycheck to paycheck with plenty of time on their hands — retired or close to it, estranged from their families or otherwise without children — and Trump had, in a surprising way, made their lives richer.”