The Trump thing started when he amazed and thrilled us by taking on the media and saying things we’d wanted to hear.
He also played big on our resentment of illegals who drain our resources and take jobs away from Americans.
So he had his base right there.
It was also a result of Magic Thinking.
Trump supporters convinced themselves that Trump was the Magic Daddy who would make all things right.
They refused to look at any negative history of Trump or any unsettling opinions he voices or has voiced.
The Trump worship became so imbedded that it has become a part of them.
So I don’t think any Trump support will fade or at the most ten percent.
But I don’t think it will grow either.
So it all depends on who gets the votes of the three also rans and also what happens between Cruz and Rubio.
The Trumpers have directed much of their hate at Cruz because he seemed the biggest threat.
Now we see a bigger threat ... one we thought had gone away.
He is the pet of the networks and the GOPe.
Maybe Cruz wasn’t so bad after all.
I like both Trump AND Cruz. From my vantage point, there are supporters on both sides who went off the rails in their attacks on the other. Republicans eating their own once again.
He is the pet of the networks and the GOPe.
If you are referring to Trump, please send me some of what you're smoking. Trump is no pet of either the networks or the GOPe. They've both thrown everything they can at him to knock him down, but he doesn't play by the same set of rules as most candidates.
Come on...
The way I know a person means what he says is that he sticks by it in face of opposition, ridicule and threats.
So when Trump says he will build a wall, I believe him. (Besides his ego can’t pass up the opportunity to be immortalized for the next 100 years by that wall). Heck, even the pope, the POPE!! gave him grief about that, and almost excommunicated him (by saying he is not a christian)
When he says that he will halt the immigration of Syrian refugees I believe him. (And you would have to be a complete idiot to allow it to go on). ISIS took over Syrian state offices and got Official blank passports, and the Passport and official document producing machines. Even if a Syrian refugee is fully documented (and most aren’t) you have no idea if an ISIS operative is getting in.
When he says that he will find a way to have Mexico pay for the wall, I believe he means it. That was one of the most ridiculed statements he made, and he stood by it.
Etc.
Most politicians would ‘clarify’, ‘evolve’, ‘pivot’, ‘reassess’ their positions based on heavy incoming and opposition.
I particularly don’t care how ‘pure’ a conservative he is, (in fact that would be a bad thing as he would not get cross-over votes).
What I care about is that he will put AMERICA first, and that is why I am voting for him.
PS: I don’t know why people call him a big government statist, I also believe he means it when he says he will cut the size of the government and will attempt to balance the budget. It is simply in his personal make up, life experience and training, he always brags about projects on time and below budget. So I believe he will cut government.