What awkward questions? They're pretty open about their thinking. Why are we all still pretending that supporting Trump, who won the popular vote btw, is some fringe position to take in America?
There are a lot of situations and policies which are clearly prone to ‘leopards eating faces’ type situations around Trump, and won’t look good when it comes around like it inevitably will.
the awkward questions are going to be of the form ‘what the fuck did you think was going to happen’?
I don't think anyone is pretending it's a fringe position, but maybe people expect smart people to be smart. Personally I don't think many of the billionaire Silicon Valley set were supporting him ideologically, more that they're cowardly, milquetoast lickspittles who care more about their bank balance than anything else.
What does the awkwardness of question has to do with whether Trump won the popular vote or not? Hitler was popular in Germany and there were plenty of awkward questions later.
Trump "won the popular vote" with the support of less than 30% of the total population, and a little less than 50% of the population who voted. That isn't fringe (although what even is fringe anymore,) but neither is it mainstream.
> Trump "won the popular vote" with the support of less than 30% of the total population
What makes you think that all the people who didn't vote not support him for President? There's polling that shows the opposite, that his margins would increase if the turnout was higher.
>What makes you think that all the people who didn't vote not support him for President?
If you're talking about the popular vote, only the people who vote matter. I'm sure there are people who didn't vote for Trump but who support him. Certainly a lot of leftists and erstwhile Democrats stayed home or voted third party because they were disillusioned with Kamala Harris, which implicitly supports whatever the status quo winds up being.
You can find polling that supports just about any narrative you like, but I don't think you can find much objective evidence that a significant majority of the American population supports Trump but most just didn't care enough to show up to the polls. Votes are the only objective data showing intent that we have, and they don't seem to indicate a sweeping mandate on Trump's behalf.
