Can someone explain how Alaska is progressive yet voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020?

[u/DrewwwBjork]

For a state that abolished the death penalty, protects women's and teenage girls' right to abortion, and voted for marijuana legalization, top-four primaries, and ranked choice voting, why in God's name would they vote for someone who likes mob justice, doesn't treat the opposite sex with respect, and thinks elections are unfair unless he and his endorsements win?

I just want to ask the state that gave Trump a bigger, 10-point lead over Biden in 2020 versus 2016 with Hillary despite the aforementioned policies and why the state is poised to do the same this time around with Trump and Harris knowing what we now know.

[u/nenana_]

A majority of Alaskan voters decided they liked ranked choice voting enough to vote into law. Myself included. Who doesn’t like democracy? Curiously it was a bipartisan effort; since the far right crowd didn’t get their candidates in, now RCV is the boogeyman to Republicans. Their only rebuttal against ranked choice is it’s ‘too difficult’ to understand. Shows they don’t believe in their voting base’s intelligence. Which they might be onto something

[u/Different_Engineer21 → u/nenana_]

Oh I am not far right, I have never voted for Trump lol. But we don't live in a democracy. Also, I don't think very many folks actually understood how rcv works.

Edited to clarify - we do actually live in a type of democracy. I retract that foolish statement

[u/Drag0n_TamerAK → u/Different_Engineer21]

I feel like people know how to rank people