It really is. The article that Peggy Noonan wrote for the WSJ a couple of weeks ago talked about how Trump followers felt that they were “unprotected” while other people on the left were “protected.”
That’s probably true in people’s minds, but the reality is that the only protection a citizen needs from the central government is military protection and perhaps the safety net. But now everybody wants the European model of an all-encompassing central state that makes all their decisions for them. The populist strongman promises to do this, put “protection” on their side, and that’s why they go for him.
The realization that he never does anything and is actually only interested in himself comes way too late. And then you end up like the unfortunate Chavez voters in VZ, who followed the siren song of a populist and went from a country that was one of the most prosperous and successful in Latin America to a place where people are fighting over who gets to buy a roll of toilet paper.
One thing the fedgov is mandated to do, they are not doing: protect us from invasion.
Breach of contract. They are leaving us unprotected, to use Noonan, while they are well protected in gated communities.
If the elite Rats and GOPes don’t mind the invasion, (cheap labor for one branch of the Uniparty, cheap labor for the other), we do mind it, a lot. We don’t want so see our nation turned into a vast Calcutta, even if it means more votes and more profits for our elite bosses.
That is what is bringing people to Trump: he is the only one promising (at least) to stop the invasion and throw out the invaders.
The rest of them are Quislings R and Quislings D, and they can both rot in hell as far as I am concerned.