A theme tune for Trump supporters – stand by your conman | Emma Brockes

Though the president is ruining life for his fanbase, many would vote for him again. And the sneery haters just make things worse

Every week for the past few months, news has emerged from across the US that Donald Trump supporters are suffering. In February it was farmers in California's Central Valley, a demographic who voted heavily for Trump, who are now discovering that their workers - 70% of whom may be in the country illegally - are threatened by Trump's executive orders on immigration.

In March, we discovered that those who stand to lose most in the way of tax credits under Trump's new tax plan are, by a heavy percentage, his own low-income voters. A few days ago, the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof surveyed Trump supporters in Oklahoma and found that threatened cuts to local services - for the unemployed and the elderly - will effect schemes that many of them rely on.

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