A Pennsylvania voter named Matt Wolfson went viral with a stunning explanation of why he voted for President-elect Donald Trump — whom Wolfson says is “like Hitler.”

Going into Election Day, the expectation was that it would be a close presidential race that could take days or longer to reach a clear decision. But once polls began to close and the results poured in, it was only a matter of hours before outlets called the race for Trump.

That shocking result included a sweep of battleground states, of which Pennsylvania was among the most hotly-contested.

In a new election post-mortem by The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Julia Terruso, Wolfson provided the perfect conclusion to an article devoted to explaining why the premise that Trump is a fascist — put forward by Trump’s own former national security advisers and echoed by Vice President Kamala Harris — did not dissuade the state’s voters:

In Scranton on Wednesday, Matt Wolfson, a 45-year-old former construction worker, looked around at poverty in the Rust Belt city and thought the nation needed a change in leadership.

Wolfson said he didn’t love the dictatorial aspect of Trump’s personality, but thought it could help keep the country out of wars and maybe bring peace to some other conflicts, including in Ukraine.

“He’s good and bad. People say he’s a dictator. I believe that. I consider him like Hitler,” Wolfson said. “But I voted for the man.”

That quote generated shock online.

“This quote is absolutely insane,” wrote one X/Twitter user in a message that was reposted and liked tens of thousands of times.

Journalists, political media figures, and others weighed in with stunned reactions:

The quote is insane, but it’s not at all atypical. I’ve heard so many variations of this very same quote this past year from so many people who intended to and/or did vote for him. https://t.co/7lIIaIDuh4

— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) November 11, 2024

INSANE https://t.co/WuruUdayls

— rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) November 11, 2024

Economic anxiety. https://t.co/bbxagz1wh1

— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) November 11, 2024

MAGA in a nutshell: “I consider him like Hitler, but I voted for the man.” https://t.co/DDyOhjcCi7

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) November 11, 2024

Too many of y’all wanna be in community with absolute idiots https://t.co/6PtUrze8c6

— The Jay Agenda (@JayJurden) November 11, 2024

Nikole Hannah Jones wrote, “You vote this way when you do not believe you will be the dictator’s target. This is why more than merely a class analysis, or one that defines identity politics exclusively as the realm of progressives and not conservatives, is necessary to understand what brought Trump to power again.”

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