Trump has never understood that we created his GOP candidacy as we created the conditions showing the discrepancy between our grassroots sentiment and the GOP Rino elite. He ran against the things we the GOP grass roots objected to. His victory was ours. We have supported him, most of the time, because he has favored what we favored.
But sometimes he thinks it is all about him, not us.
He is no Nixon. Nixon knew how to take a big loss, remain a party statesman and return to win the Presidency twice, the last time in a landslide.
Indeed, Nixon, not Trump, should be our role model. He embraced and expanded the Great Society, created the EPA, OSHA and Title XI, imposed a nationwide 55 mph speed limit, appointed Justice Blackmun, who wrote Roe vs. Wade, ushered in Earth Day and set Red China on the road to world domination. Nixon was truly a great conservative statesman.