Trump Voters Are Not The People We Thought They Were

[sinkspur]

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Trump Voters Are Not The People We Thought They Were

By Erick Erickson  |  April 8, 2016, 01:00pm

Trump’s voters tell us America has gone off the rails. They tell us that America is no longer great and they want to make it great again. They tell us the problem is Washington. They tell us the problem is both parties. They finger the Republican Establishment in Washington as chief instigator of all the problem along with Barack Obama. The two are collaborators on tearing down America.

They are going to stand with Trump to make America great again. They are going to clean up Washington.

But they aren’t.

There have been a series of primary challenges thus far in states with Republican challengers targeting incumbent Republican establishment members. And all of them are losing. The Trump voters are either voting for Trump and ignoring down ballot races (a warning sign for November with Trump as the nominee) or they are voting for the very establishment incumbents they think are harming America.

On top of that, they are assailing the conservative organizations that have been beating incumbent establishmentarians. The Club for Growth, Heritage Action for America, Madison Project, Senate Conservative Fund, Freedom Works, etc. have all been fighting incumbents and have all been pushing pro-freedom conservative challengers. But because they are not down with Trump explicitly or in some cases are outright opposed, the Trump voters have labeled these groups establishment.

At the end of the day we are left with a deep irony within Trump voters’ views. The groups most likely to fight the establishment Republicans who Trump voters hate are being labeled as establishment for also opposing Trump. So we’re left with the actual Republican Establishment and Trump voters working together to shut out conservative reformers who are championing the very causes Trump voters claim they believe in.

Trump’s voters are not the people we thought they were. They are not committed to making America great again. They are just committed to Donald Trump. They are leaving in place the very system he and they rail against thinking, I guess, that he can will more than 500 individually elected congressmen and senators to do his bidding.

[sinkspur]

They are just committed to Donald Trump.

A cult.

[jmyrlefuller]

Trump’s voters are not the people we thought they were. They are not committed to making America great again. They are just committed to Donald Trump.

That has been obvious for a year now. The question is, who, after their initial assumptions of good faith, ever thought they were anything more than loyalists to one man?

[Sanguine]

I don't care about Trump.  This is what I care about: 

So we’re left with the actual Republican Establishment and Trump voters working together to shut out conservative reformers who are championing the very causes Trump voters claim they believe in.

[Bill Cipher]

I've saying it was a cult of personality for quite some time now.

[Frank Cannon]

The name Reagan keeps being used to describe Trump by his supporters, but Reagan was for making the party better. Trump is for destroying it and just cutting deals with the Left. This is why his supporters are not going to help keep the House and Senate. They have been told it doesn't matter. Trump is all that matters.

[Bill Cipher]

The name Reagan keeps being used to describe Trump by his supporters, but Reagan was for making the party better. Trump is for destroying it and just cutting deals with the Left. This is why his supporters are not going to help keep the House and Senate. They have been told it doesn't matter. Trump is all that matters.

STrump is the antithesis of Reagan.  Reagan didn't care about credit; for STrump, taking credit is the only thing.

[HonestJohn]

They are just committed to Donald Trump.

A cult.

It's like the cult of Palin in 2012, when so many just 'knew' she was going to run that they  didn't even consider a candidate until the moment they stepped into the voting booth (in the primary) and saw she wasn't on the ballot.  And it's possibly the same people, too.

(in the case of the TOS, it is)