But here's another set of facts that also fit, and I would argue that they fit a little better. And I did it with a Venn diagram. So here you've got, let's say the topic is stricter immigration, President Trump's preferred immigration policies. So that's the topic.

If you do the Venn diagram, I think the GOP mainstream, the people who are not racists, would be saying, yeah, we like more immigration control at the borders because it's good for American jobs, that might lower crime, it's good for economics in general. The racists would also like all that stuff. Yeah, who doesn't like more jobs, better economy, less crime? So everybody agrees on that stuff, right?

But they additionally want fewer brown people. Okay, that's what makes them racists. If they wanted more brown people, they wouldn't be racist, or at least they wouldn't be white supremacist racists. So how can it be that all of these racists are supporting Trump? Well, it's easy. He's got the only policy which, in their opinion, would result in fewer brown people. But that doesn't say anything about these guys, nor does it say anything about President Trump, because his policy is about jobs and crime and economics.

The fewer brown people is, wait for it, probably not exactly what the racists were hoping for. Because remember, President Trump's preferred immigration strategy is that we take the most qualified people from every country that has good government systems so that we can identify them. The whole point of the seven-country ban is that those countries are not even all Muslim. I think North Korea is on there. But the point of it is that they don't have good systems for identifying their own citizens, so then we can't tell who we're getting.

All right, so President Trump's preferred system would take the best people from wherever they come from, as long as, in this context, the best means economically they can take care of themselves and also add to the country so they're not bringing in problems. Most of them are going to be brown. Here I say brown to cover everybody who's not a classic generic white person. So that would include all of Asia, all of India, and all of Africa, every country that's in play.

So I don't think the racists would get what they want. But here's the thing: immigration is just sufficiently complicated enough that people default to their biases because it's a little hard to follow. Most of us don't know the details of who wants to do what and if this policy would change what by how much. It's a little hard to follow. And so whenever you have complication, people default to bias. Racists say, well, I don't understand this whole thing, but it seems like less immigration. That would get fewer brown people. That must be good if you're a racist.

So it makes perfect sense that racists would vote Republican, but for different reasons. By analogy, criminals have guns and police have guns, but that doesn't make criminals police, right? People can like things for completely different reasons. A criminal likes a gun for making crime. Police like guns for stopping crime. Same gun. All right, President Trump is one gun. Terrible analogy, and I know, forgive me for this analogy. He's one gun. The criminals can use him. The good people can use him for different reasons.