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Wrong-

You can deviate all you want. Just don’t expect folks to support you.

Trump is popular for several reasons.

1. Many conservatives do not like the big government Republicans that are not unlike their Democrat buddies only on other issues. Both seem to favor more spending and more regulations, only on differing topics. The Republicans sing the national security and public safety song, while the Democrats social justice and the environment. It is in fact under Republican rule when you have ssen some of the largest expansions in government powers and spending, i.e. Bush with his Patriot Act, the creation of the TSA/DHS... Pick your poison, both want to grow government, but he has been the ONLY since Reagan to actually reduce the amount of federal regulations: https://www.ecfr.gov/ He threw out or altered some of the politically motivated and idiotic laws, to include Biden’s Crime Bill.

2. Some folks have had enough of the lay down and stick your ass up mentality of most of these Republicans that immediately prostrate themselves as soon as someone cries racism, sexism, xeno or homo phobia. Some don’t get it, they are shocked, but it is exactly this which makes him “loved” by so many: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f83CrDM0K4 For many people, when Trump takes his middle finger and sticks it into CNNs eye, they’re not offended or insulted, no, they only like him more: https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/08/14/trump-calls-cnn-fake-news-acosta-sot-mobile.cnn Many people are tired of the appeasing, weak, apologizing, conservative candidate that is perpetually on the defensive.

3. Trump is very unique in that he is willing to take a course which is not necessarily in step with what his party wants, what the ruling class in America (our oligarchs) want. He pissed off a lot of important folks with his executive orders on pharma and going after trade with China (PRC). Biden immediately turned all that around, to make sure Bezos (trade), Gates, Bourla (pharma), Buffet (pipeline), Soros, Zuckerberg (anti-Trust/Sherman Act)... “everyone that matters” is happy again. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/09/biden-revokes-and-replaces-trump-executive-orders-that-banned-tiktok.html Biden literally made sure all the folks with billions are happy and the MSM talked about how great that is. Literally, immediately Biden made sure big tech, big pharma, some individual oligarchs like Buffet, the PRC... everyone gets what they want under him: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/us/politics/huawei-meng-wanzhou.html

Most Republicans would not dare do what Trump did, they are regards many issues indistinguishable (I heard the term uni-party used before - very accurate IMHO) from the Democrats because of the power these folks have.

Here are some things I am sure of. (1) If Trump were still in power, we would not be in a proxy war with Russia. (2) We would not have taken the Covid insanity to the extreme we did (example mandates). (3) Under Trump, we had an UNPRECEDENTED era of economic growth especially if you look at unemployment, inflation, real net wage growth, GDP growth combined (not just one or the other). Under Trump the economy was roaring and federal regulations were shrinking!

It was Covid which brought him down.