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.
So you were not ever for Trump.