Are these the same "closet Trump voters" that threw off so many polls (here's looking at you, 538) in 2016 and to a lesser degree, in 2020?
If so, it wasn't just the NYTimes who was profiling them. Most large circulation news outlets were doing the same. They are obviously not moderates, but they are dissembling partisans with motivations that span the range of low-information to right wing realpolitik .
Are these the same "closet Trump voters" that threw off so many polls (here's looking at you, 538) in 2016 and to a lesser degree, in 2020?
If so, it wasn't just the NYTimes who was profiling them. Most large circulation news outlets were doing the same. They are obviously not moderates, but they are dissembling partisans with motivations that span the range of low-information to right wing realpolitik .