the rest of these comments show why the GOP is failing............
This “popularity” isn’t general popularity one would think of as in “populism”. It is better described as a targeted populism in a cloistered environment of dilettantes, elites and poweratti that consists of DC politicians, DC and national MSM of the ‘standards and programs of record’ kind, and the sycophants and DC suckerfish that feed on OUR blood.
They could give a flying crap about what you or I think except when every 2 or 6 years rolls around and they have to come back home and lie their ass off again.