A while ago I was suspicious that most of the_donald was just people trolling, and the posters didn't actually hold the views that they claimed to. So I started looking in to their post histories, and it turns out that I was really really wrong. They're very much sincere.

It also turns out that you can sort of track the point when someone becomes susceptible to the Trump message. Most of these people's post histories start off innocuously, and then gradually move towards posts about the excesses of social justice, media conspiracies in favour of the left, immigrants behaving poorly, red pill philosophy. It's sort of compelling watching it unfold, but obviously also quite worrying to see how successful the current crop of alt-right memes are at influencing people.

So I started to pick random submissions to the_donald, and if the poster was active for more than 6 months or so, I'd go through their history to try and get an idea of what they're like, and how they came to support Trump. I made some threads where I join up a selection of their posts into a sort of narrative, ordered reverse-chronologically. I mostly did it for myself, to better understand what to me seems like a very strange phenomenon. You can check it out here -- https://www.reddit.com/r/the_donaldsuperstars

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