It makes sense to somebody who voted for Hillary.
exactly. Or stated the intent to do so.
There exists for me, a certain type of "conservative." They like some of the aspects of "conservatism," but erhaps most they like to be accepted by family, associates, which label themselves "conservatives."
But woe to the awful outsider, never a real insiderof that group.
Goldwater, Reagan, Trump. Both broke into the GHW Bush insider game (Perot, Buchanan tried to), and they can't ever, ever even grasp why it happened.
I'll call them "Affinity Conservatives;" e.g. they like being in this group.
Before admitting that they were wrong, they label the outsider's supporters wrong.
It continues with the likes of George Will was Never elected to anything.
Spend more time with real conservative thinkers like Victor Davis Hanson. Newt Gingrich. Mark Levin, Pat Buchanan.
These and others know that Trump did NOT create the conditions which led to his election.
They make honest intellectual attempts to understand explain it.
Besides calling Trump's supporters too white, too uneducated, Nazis and worse.
Trump has governed more conservatively than almst anybody expected. More than anyone since Reagan. Real honest conservatives ught to be able to see it, even if their pride prevents them from saying so.