"20 of 28 districts came up Trump."
So if you look at where the populations pockets are, you can see that it's mostly blue voters. Gerrymandering has made it so joe blow in the middle of nowhere and his inbred family has more significance than an area with 3-6 million. Sure there's idiots everywhere.
"About a third of eligible voters (and close to 40% of registered voters) didn’t bother to vote."
This one is interesting because you're essentially criticizing a nursing home. Just because they're registered doesn't mean they're, as I would say eligible, and by that I mean people with memory issues, Alzheimer's, dementia, people that simply barely function.
If someone asks you if they've taken their pills four times in an hour, do you really think they're eligible voters? Have you seen a sample ballot? It's not A or B. Asking someone in their 60/70/80/90 age range to research the ballot is akin to asking a child to do the same.
"Trump got about 56% of the popular vote."
This is where you're not understanding the whole issue, setting aside an uneducated public. A good majority of the voter base will go based on a circle jerk of whoever says what first at the nursing home.
I mean don't get me wrong, there's plenty of idiots here. But this is a state where mostly old people live. Personally I don't trust most. It's a coin toss on if you meet someone still mentally functional and good luck changing their opinion if they're not; and it has nothing to do with politics at a certain age.
And to add to this mess. The counter party proudly chanted how she supports isFake in a rally. Maybe tariffs wouldn't have happened, but the real cluster-fuck would probably still happened.