I think it’s a bit more than the Huckabee and Santorum voters (I voted for neither). I think it has more to do with the real power of the office of the President being the bully pulpit, and Trump being better at that sort of thing than any other candidate in recent memory.
We know he talks some sh*t, we also know that there are checks and balances in government which btw, the GOPe have been assailing in an unrelenting fashion. We look at the other candidates and you know, more than anything else it’s a bit like looking at the pretty shiny thing hanging in front of an angler fish’s very toothy mouth. They are proxies for groups bent on gaming our system. On what planet is that an appealing prospect?
And the “nay-sayers” continue...............
No matter which person gets elected, you will get what you get, its which of the two are worse. It has been that way since the election process started years ago and it continues today. Both parties pick their candidate (both which are usually terrible) and turn it over to the voters to pick which one THEY think to be the best of the two worst choices. All the rhetoric will not change it.