I will also note that Duncan Hunter stood for exactly the same things Trump said he supported—but with a longer paper trail proving his consistency.
More or less I suppose - Though as you say, Hunter walked the walk... Which is all I ever see. Any and every moron gets on the stump and makes the same promises... Which is why I pay it no mind at all. I care about the record, and nothing else.
Yet he never made it beyond 1% support.
Not true. That year Wyoming decided to caucus early, and he won Wyoming hands down... And did alright through the long drought through northeastern states... won debates... Did good. Then they shut him off - cut him off from any debates or press just before South Carolina and the Southern states where he would have caught massive traction, guaranteed.
He was discarded like yesterday's paper by the powers that be... My first real awareness of it on the right.
MAGA was never about the issues. It was "ooh, rich shiny thing!" Because our nation is hopelessly corrupted by greed and debauchery.
MAGA was a stolen slogan and a paper tiger... Populism is always about the shiny sh*t, and not the real thing... Which is the difference.
Like I said, I care about those that walk the walk, and have a record to prove it... So I am utterly immune to the flash-bang and dentyne shwing... And rock-star sold-out events, and all the bull crap that goes with it. All of it, nonsense to me.
And that's what this last go-around was... a battleship mouth and a rowboat ass.