In my case my wife announced her support for Trump before I did. I liked what he was saying but I was still in the Cruz camp. First off I didn't really think Trump was serious, and secondly I was concerned about him not really being conservative. But it was soon after my wife announced her support I started paying more attention to Trump. It wasn't many weeks after that, that I had made the complete transition over to Trump. I said what have we got to lose, before Trump ever even said that to the black population. Cruz was starting to show his flaws and I became convinced that he did not have what it takes to actually win the General Election.
What happened with you and your wife is pretty much what happened between my husband and I. In a conversation after supper one night I mentioned to him that I really liked what Trump was saying. Neither of us was sure he was making a serious run but he listened. It took a few more weeks for me to swing my support from Cruz to Trump but my husband respectfully heard what I said. (He works full time, I retired early so I had more time to study the candidates) He began his own reading of Trump’s views after we started the discussion and was shortly on the Trump train as well.
We are different from most folks it seems in that we don’t have any close family or friends who are libs. Before the election my family got together and while all were planning to vote for Trump several, including my dad, said they really didn’t want to vote Trump, just had to vote against the Beast. My husband was a true campaign champion in changing some tunes with an “angry white working man” point of view. He was fed up with the platitudes and even though he had to go into an angry outburst he made 2 converts. It didn’t actually gain any votes but it gained support.
I can’t believe it!!
I could have written WORD FOR WORD what you wrote!
Amazing.
Or maybe more common than I think.