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Voters just see "their tax money" being given away to yet another foreign state in exchange "for nothing" while "huge inflation" is starving them, so he just goes with it. It doesn't have to be more than that, as libs can't concede any of those lies. There's always more places for guns.
Not really, the Roman Empire had good roads. (stolen from someone on twitter, not checking)