Quoting Craig Sanders (cas@taz.net.au):
It is weird, but nowhere near as weird as the fact that its easy to get people to vote against their own interests, again and again and again.
As I've been known to admit in my weaker moments, I'm a USA citizen and voter, so this phenomenon is not entirely unknown to me. ;-> I'm starting to run low on countries to point to, to say 'See, _there_ is a sensible, rational, functional democracy at work.' Or, to rephrase the point in pop-culture terms, it's been like: UK voter, June 2016: "Ugh, this is a disaster unlikely to be surpassed." US voter, Nov. 2016: "Hold my Coors." Oz voter, May 2019: "Hold my VB." (Just kidding. Morrison is a head-cold, while Brexit and the Toddler-in-Chief are viral encephalitis.) Anyway, thank Great Ghu for the leader of the free world. (Angela Merkel, of course.)