They’re not though. I work with quite a few of them and while they’ll laugh off some of the most ridiculous things, they’re more frustrated he’s not able to implement his grand plan without roadblocks and that it’s literally the deep states fault for anything bad. It’s really weird, like an alternate truth that they just don’t believe it’s cruel or inhumane or how people are losing their liberties. Honestly it comes across as stupidity but well they’re incapable of seeing it.
One of my co-workers was actually telling me that Trump actually bought that Tesla. Paid his own money for it because he doesn't need Musk's money. I was shocked. Did he actually think Trump did an add for free? Not only free, but spent tens of thousands of his own dollars to do it? Next day Musk gave Trump another $100 million dollars...
And the further "right" they go the lower their approval ratings will go. Democrats screwed up when they screwed Bernie Sanders.
Practically speaking, it's much better to take over one of the existing two parties than to start a new party. You can change the leadership, change the platform, even change the name if you want, but definitely less of a lift to do a takeover rather than build from scratch. barfo
Ultimately the trick is people vote for the goofy guy and not the serious guy. Just like voting for student body president. Let’s take a look: JFK - affable goof Carter - affable goof Clinton - affable goof Obama - affable goof Nixon - nobody is going to vote for Hubert Reagan - affable goof Bush II - affable goof Trump - affable goof We get mad at Trump, but republicans think he’s fucking hilarious.
It's more about voting for a change agent than someone who is more aligned with the establishment. This is why it was so mind boggling that Kamala kept telling us she was with the establishment. And Trump IS hilarious. No denying that. If he got out of politics tomorrow he could sell out arenas as a comic.
