Re: Not So Hateful DJT Supporter
Trump voters (and non-voters) fall into several distinct categories.
(A) Ordinary Republicans.
They watched the debates, they chose whoever they chose but when Trump won the primary they instinctively fell in line and voted for him because he ran as a Republican.
Some of them may have buyer's remorse, the larger portion of whom have eventually left the party now that it is exclusively "the Party of Trump".
Others have decided that regardless of his faults, it is proper to support him anyway.
(B) Never Trumpers.
They too watched the debates, they chose whoever they chose but when Trump won the primary they instinctively recoiled.
Many of them stayed home, or wrote in their candidate. Some left the party.
(C) Hardcore Trumpers.
This group is composed mostly of alt-Right, neo-Nazis, Klanners, but may also include a lot of conspiracy theorists, former Tea Partiers, people who fell in love with his reality show "The Apprentice" and bought it wholesale as if it was reality. Some simply think he represents their values so perfectly that they don't see a problem. What many outside this circle might report as "bugs", they see as features.
(D) Hillary haters.
This group can include a lot of different independents, who just decided that Hillary was worse than Trump, or just the worst possible candidate and they refused to give her their vote, so they went with Trump instead. Or they refused to vote or voted for an independent instead.
(E) Frustrated Bernie Bros.
Reports of this group's size are frequently exaggerated but they do exist. These are folks who decided that the best reaction to losing Bernie is to subject the country to four years of Trump, to "teach Americans a lesson."
(F) Evangelicals/Dominionists/Reconstructionists.
This group fell in line the moment Trump was "anointed" by evangelical leaders.
You can't do very much about Groups C and F, they are mostly immovable but A, B, D and E represent a large voting block.
And it looks like more and more, Trump has alienated or betrayed many of them.
He has left the average independent farmer in the trash heap. That sixteen billion dollar bailout mostly went to the huge corporate farms.
The average independent farmer
was lucky to get a couple of thousand bucks.
He has betrayed factory workers, like the people at Carrier and Harley. He has betrayed average homeowners and middle class wage earners, many of whom saw a tax INCREASE instead of a cut, or a momentary cut followed by an increase. His mouth is creating fake crises by the dozen, just so that he can use his mouth to pretend to solve them, just like a reality show, only with real people instead of actors.
It's just a change in casting.