It is funny how things have changed in politics. In 1976 Ford made a mistake of saying that there was no USSR domination in Eastern Europe. It costs him dearly.
Today Trump or 1 of his spokespeople say something stupid daily, they say things that prove they have absolutely no idea of the world works, or what's going on in the world or country. But his supporters don't care. It's like they revel in Trump's ignorance and stupidity.
Ford made 1 mistake and it cost him. Trump proves daily he has no clue about anything and still a large portion of the Republican base supports him. The GOP kissed the asses of the fringe far right part of their base for years, now it's coming back to haunt them.
We may need to look at the great majority of Trump supporters differently than with past candidates.
These people don't have an "ideology", per se, that they would otherwise consciously match to a candidate.
They're instead a very large group of economically struggling Americans with a bias against "foreign" people.
They're the antithesis of the left wing's Multi-Cultural Internationalists, but they're not the right wing's Corporate Global Expansionists that supported Romney.
They're simply not right wing, far or otherwise.
They don't really think, behave, or affirm ideologically any consistent place on the American political spectrum.
They're simply wanting American prosperity, they fear that "foreign" people are a threat .. and that's basically it.
Hillary Clinton, for a number of reasons, is "foreign" to them.
Trump appeals to them because he speaks to their concerns.
Thus it doesn't matter to them so much what he says as it might matter to those of traditional ethics on the right wing.
As long as he's promising individual economic prosperity in something he says, they have hope in him.
And, as along as he's saying anything against "foreign" people, no matter how vile we find his delivery, he's expressing their fed-up emotion, so they cheer.
Though they don't appear to be left wing, they lack both the traditional social ethics of the right wing and the corporation-first economic perspective of the economic right-wing.
It's difficult to plot them on the traditional American political spectrum.
Though one might think their "xenophobia" might qualify them as national socialists, they find any form of socialism "foreign" to America, so they're not NAZIs.
But, there are quite a ton of them, they have been silent in previous elections .. and now they have a speaker.
