Trump's appeal to aspies?

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Funny, because most political analysis puts Trump in the Authoritarian Right, and proposals do a lot that can harm people on their individual liberties, like straight up banning transgender people from all positions in the military and trying to persecute everyone that criticises him. And have you seen the Trump rallies, they are super collectivism, but there is a bit of a difference between large collective bodies behind mostly a charismatic figure, and wanting collective policies that would help everybody regardless of the social power poll.




Have you seen him in the debates? You call how he acted as being prime examples of civility? You even said "may feel that Trump is too abrasive and emotional in style", and this is a man that whines whenever someone portrays him in a way that he does not like.




The quirky defense? People find him interesting because he wants to nuke a hurricane or inject cleaning agents (bleach) into the body?




He might have not been part of the elite/establishment of politics at the start, but he was surely part of the "rich" elite born with a silver spoon. He super thinks of himself to superior to other people, he has literally said that only he can save everyone, and very much mocks everyone he sees as bellow him, while he sucks up with rhetoric to people that worship him. His administration is even him trying to create his own elite as he requires everyone to just be loyal to him, his own family, and remove anyone that does things he does not like even if it is just their job.




Perhaps this is one that makes the most sense, although it does kind of reject the whole idea that Trump was going to "change" the way things were to make things great. Generally this explains why older people in general vote for conservatism, they are afraid of change. But why would somebody with ASD who feels like the current order is screwing them over and that conservative change would screw them over more, would vote for him?


I am not saying that these perceived reasons are not why an Aspie might feel like they are for Trump, in fact I think that it can be the perfect little story of creating a narrative that you can tell yourselves that makes you feel like you are part of some great story. That you can accuse those on the opposite political spectrum as being victim of groupthink, while you can ignore the enormous groupthink of MAGA, rationalising it as common sense, while everyone who disagrees is a Trump hater, even the scientists.