I think some gross generalization. Reddit's Trump community were pretty strongly supportive of privacy and net neutrality but just decided Trump was ok anyway.

Reddit's Trump community? So basically, you're talking about the top 0.001% of Trump voters in tech savviness, just by virtue of them being on reddit.

My theory is that right wing voters do not really care about policy. They seem to respond more the displays of strength.

That's a bingo. Exhibit A is Trump giving the keynote at the Values Voters Summit.

Or they do not care about privacy, they only care about their taxes being lowered while believing that voting GOP will get them lowered taxes.

Yep. Software engineer at Google in Mountain View here. I voted for Trump.

I literally do not give a damn about anything else other than lowering my taxes. I don't care about climate change (it is being accelerated by humans, I agree) and I literally don't care about BART or SF public transit or homelessness. Just give me my clean air vehicle tag so I can drive in the carpool lane as a single driver in my Model S.

Yes, there are tens of thousands of people like me in the bay area.

You are quite right to point this out so explicitly. It is something we all have to deal with -- the way that wealth and power and privilege insulate people from having to care about anything other than their own excess and immunize people against normal human emotions like empathy, kindness, the ability to recognize and appreciate your own luck and consider the misfortune of others, etc.

STEM folks are the most susceptible to this, I think -- working in a technical field tends to isolate you from other people. Being wealthy and working in a technical field is horribly alienating. You literally, over time, lose the capacity to understand others or consider them as people.

Double for working in the valley which is like a giant tech worker gated community.

Out of curiosity, do you not care about breathing unhealthy air? Are you aware we just had 5 or so days of unhealthy air (worse than Beijing air quality) because of the wildfires to our north, which are being worsened and increased by climate change? -- https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/09/why-is-2...

Trump's base is white people, not (necessarily) dumb people.

That's facile and incredibly trite. His base is voters, regardless of creed, race, colour or intelligence.

I'm not a Trump fan (nor even American) but I think your analysis of skin colour based demographics is probably flawed in some way.

People aren't dumb for having a poor grasp on internet privacy.

True! I should have been more specific about the form of ignorance.