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LOL, only if you have reading comprehension issues.
It explicitly STATES (not implies) that they ("not wealthy right wing populist voters") are a member of the set of those who arrived at the position emotionally. It makes zero statement about who else might be in that same set.
The good news however is that we have academic studies that have actually answered that question. In short the right is heavily supported by those who select emotionally, predominantly from an underlying fear basis. And that the left predominantly operates from an analytical basis. This is the source of the (very poignant) quote about "facts having a left wing bias"
Yeah, well, facts are uncomfortable, I get that.
Oh now, that is absolutely true. Academically well supported too. You know what the next sentence is going to be though, don't you ? It's the right, particularly the populist right, that heavily do so.
Keep telling yourself that if it helps you sleep at night, meanwhile the polling shows that voting "anyone but reform" to keep reform out makes up about half of UK voters, and only 25% are willing to vote for them.
EDIT a couple of missing words and punctuation
It must be nice to have such wild self-belief.