There is no such thing as a low information voter.
There has been a lot of talk about “low-information voters” and their disproportionate support for Donald Trump in the recent election. This term generally refers to voters perceived as making political decisions without a comprehensive grasp of the issues, policies, or candidates.
A recent Reuters poll appears to support this view, suggesting that voters who held certain misconceptions about crime, the economy, and immigration were more likely to support Trump.
Even more to the point is this post. Apparently, a sizeable number of Trump supporters don’t even understand the concepts that power much of the liberal antipathy towards their standard bearer. I mean if many folks are clueless about authoritarianism, then consider other ideas and concepts in the progressive media ecosystem. Some Trump (hell, most people really) are going to be absolutely befuddled if someone claims, for example, they are voting for Harris because of the “toxic masculinity” rife in the Trump campaign.
The labeling of a voter as “low information” is problematic. It implies that if only those people over there had the same information as we do over here, they’d make…