Joyce Fegan: Why so many Americans voted for a sociopath like Donald Trump

What Donald Trump does is he pulls people towards the values of security, and he does this by priming them with fear first, and then offers security, says Joyce Fegan
Joyce Fegan: Why so many Americans voted for a sociopath like Donald Trump

A customer watches President Donald Trump on televisions in a shop in downtown Nairobi, Kenya. Picture: AP Photo/Brian Inganga

Almost 70m human beings placed a tick beside the name of a man who stood over the separation of traumatised babies from their refugee parents. 

Almost 70m human beings placed a tick beside the name of a man who boasted about sexually assaulting women. 

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