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This is generally a good corrective, with the significant caveat that there's an inescapable pull to treat groups of voters' views as fixed and endogenous that doesn't account for the dynamics of the actual process of campaigning.

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
You definitely could have run a piece like this in 2015 about how "Most Republican voters aren't Trumpists", and it would have been empirically true.
That said, I have a rule to never ever treat Twitter as any kind of focus group or cross section of public opinion.
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