You're being obtuse. Nothing is black and white, that's another side of the simplistic conservative thinking thing. Everything is entangled shades of gray. People are unpredictable, logic usually fails, and they're very willing to vote against their own interests (or at least prioritize interests in sometimes unexpected ways).
If voters understood economics, rural people and the lower and middle classes would never cast a ballot for a Republican again, yet that's their base. The damage to the economy was done by Republicans in Congress, Reagan, the Bushes and The Former Guy...people those voters put into office. Yet there they were lined up to vote him again in 2020.
It's "God, Guns and Guts" - social issues, "2nd Amendment" silliness, performative faux patriotism. Go look at the studies on the correlations between GOP voters and issues like religion, race, gender, etc. "Takin' our country back" and "Make America Great Again" aren't about the economy. Conservatism is grinding rural voters and the lower and middle classes to dust and harvesting their money, but every two years they're right there pulling the lever for their oppressors.
Since you seem ill disposed to look it up, the right's hatred of Hillary goes back to her days as First Lady of Arkansas when she wouldn't give up her career and made a flippant statement about not baking cookies. They've been on a crusade to bring her down ever since. Then there was Gingrich and the party losing it's mind during Bill's time in office.
Hillary was a poor choice, in part because the rightmost chunk of American politics see anyone named Clinton as kin to the Devil. TFG is objectively the most incompetent, corrupt and unGodly man to occupy the Oval Office in modern history. But there he was, being elected on the basis of his opponent supposedly being incompetent, corrupt and unGodly.
P.S. I was a Bernie guy in 2016 and Warren in 2020. Whether they were good short-term picks, I think Clinton and Biden were not good for the long term. But given their strong connections with theAfrican-Smerican community and the power of that bloc within the Dems, it was largely inevitable. Black folk tend to be very practical and cautious, for good reason. Ever wonder why they vote for White candidates?
You're doing yourself a disservice by limited thinking. If you're like most folk of your inclinations I've encountered, it may be because actually thinking the intricacies through risks upended the applecart of your philosophy. It's why science is unpopular right now - the problem with the search for truth is that once you've found it you're stuck with it, like it or not.
