That is why “we” (I don’t know what to call “us,” people who choose to vote Republican) were stupid the past election to be rah rah for the R team. FReepers knew this, but so many talking heads so identify with the sports theme, and still say “us” for Republicans on the air. NO. THEY ARE NOT US.
We do need a new category (not necessarily a new party). We need to call ourselves something like Trumpists for clarity only. We aren’t slaves of the President’s personality. We are supporters of the Trump agenda as laid out in his campaign and current speeches.
If we could gain clarity by understand whom we support, we could let go of the attachment to the paid off whores in Congress or the admin who call themselves Republicans. They are surely not us.
Trump supporters were Palin supporters were tea partiers, it goes back a ways. Trump is just the latest and strongest manifestation. Should they manage to thwart him, there will be another, stronger still. There are more and different Trump supporters who came from even the Democrat side though, for whom borders and immigration all tie into jobs and a healthy domestic economy. Patriotic nationalists who want the interests of US citizens put first, as far as trade policy, treaties, border control, immigration as a whole, healtcare proposals and taxation, but the left is busily tainting the word nationalist. Creating a US Citizen’s Interest PAC would get pretty close, endorsing candidates of existing political parties, only running vetted, recruited candidates under the “USCI” banner when there are no viable existing candidates.