What Trump turned out to be is a catalyst. His great idea was to get blue collars back to where they belonged - to the Republican Party. 4 percent growth coupled with wage growth will do that, and it seems likely that the blue collars - the deploreables in the Dems' eyes - will come out in November to support their man.
White collars, though, tend to be a bit less strictly rational when it comes to voting their economic interests. Maybe it's because they have more, both in money and economic security, that they can afford to indulge their cultural fetishes. The Dems love to proclaim false virtue, that they are the party of "fairness" even if their idea of fairness is to bring everyone else down to the lowest common denominator.
And those Republicans who continue to oppose Trump are concerned about virtue too - a President lacking in grace who treats his high office as a reality show. Many of them - especially the white collars - will be weighing head vs. heart in the voting booth. I'm one of them, but this fall, with Trump not on the ballot, it's all head - keep the pro-growth economic policies going and punt for another day the big question: whether the new GOP coalition forged by Trump as its catalyst can or should continue without him.
