“The problem was the big donors did not agree and all the other candidates wanted the big donor money and needed the big donor money to stay in politics.”
I agree that was a huge factor, but I’ll always wonder how a MAGA type would do without institutional funding - someone who asks for money from the Republican base, as there are MANY, MANY, of us do have a good deal of money that we’re intending to hand down to kids...which will be of little use, in a destroyed country.
I tend to think in terms of Tea Party as opposed to MAGA. In 2010 there were a lot of candidates who claimed to be tea party members but were not once they got in office. I don’t know if they were always liars or became corrupted by the system. It would also be interesting to know if they were corrupted by money or by sex.
I never thought Trump would follow through, but he did a magnificent job. I never expected so much opposition to him on the GOP side, however. Makes me wonder if anyone else will ever have the courage to take on the establishment.