Why do I get the feeling you were never for Trump? :-)
Reading is fundamental. My prior response to gg2 :
I wasn’t so much for Trump as I was for what he was doing to shatter the PC media stranglehold on the national conversation. I was also fine with him as an alternative to Ted Cruz until Trump turned so vicious on Cruz. I always criticized Trump’s slashing style as something I’d rather not see in a conservative candidate. To me Ronald Reagan has always been the model conservative candidate: always polite and gracious, always keeping the 11th commandment and yet, he could still fight his political opponents effectively with humor and articulate argument.