Yes but what he is doing is making sure to alienate normally loyal Republican voters. Voters who won’t be their for him if he wins the nomination.
I agree with you.
But Trump doesn’t think like normal people.
I don’t think he has seen past getting the nomination.
Absolutely right. The GOP establishment has been telling us for a long time that we need to focus on getting the independent and moderate vote while they ignore, insult and screw over the base. Then we lost the last 2 elections. This formula doesn’t work. Until the “moderates” in the party realize there is no path to victory without giving the Christian conservative base what they want, they will never win. The Democrats don’t win by alienating the base either. Whoever nominates the candidate that MOST excites the far right or left wing of the party wins. And like it or not W. was a popular candidate with the base and his popularity has only gone up since leaving office. Everyone knows it was Obama who lost Iraq by pulling out, not Bush.
Trump is not doing much if anything to speak to people who vote out of “ loyalty” to the GOP because the GOP is a charade - exposed by their reaction to Trumps most extreme CONSERVATIVE positions vis immigration and their cowardice to do anything that upsets “ the establishment”
How loyal can you be to a party that is almost 100% disloyal to you?
Will everyone who feels betrayed and disgusted by both political parties please vote for Trump and all you loyalists who thought Romney and McCain were going to be conservative standard bearers please stick with Don Quixote Cruz