You hit the nail squarely on the head
Thank you, Lottie!
I think it might be called the law of unintended consequences. A certain segment of conservatives abhor the GOP and want it to be destroyed.
When they saw Trump, the "outsider" (that's a hoot, considering how he's been a political insider for decades), and saw him come in with a wrecking ball, even if they didn't outright support him, they loved what he was doing.
Only what he was and is doing is destroying the entire conservative movement and setting us back a very long way. There are a lot of people out there who don't know that Trump is really a Democrat...... a Progressive. They think he's conservative and know that he's a misogynist, says racist things, treats people like dirt, and they associate his behavior with the lies they've been told by the left about us.
It's heart-wrenching to see people who actually ARE conservative attach themselves to such a destructive pretender.