“They don’t want to share power with people like us”
Correct, as far as it goes.
But you have to account for Trump’s tremendous popularity among people like ME - New York born and bred, lived in the Northeast my entire life.
Now, politically, I’m FAR to the right of Trump. Took the red pill and never looked back.
But culturally, man, I can’t get enough of Trump’s New York schtick.
The Kristol phenomenon is about a power struggle WITHIN the NY universe, not outside of it. The Neocons rose to influence with the Reagan Administration, but reached their peak with poor stupid W, and now, since for reasons I don’t completely understand, they feel their potential for a return to power threatened by Trump, they are considering switching sides.
I always read the neocons as dingleberries hanging onto GHW Bush. They sort of stealthed in with Reagan but laid low. Reagan still had people like Pat Buchanan and Alan Keyes, who were tossed out like stained sheets on the unholy ascent of GHW Bush in 1989.
“But culturally, man, I can’t get enough of Trump’s New York schtick.”
I don’t, but I am an old school Southern peckerwood. It hurts him a little bit here, but not much. What resonates in the South is the direct, unvarnished patriotism, will to win, and eagerness to fight. That carries him past any other friction.