How long will Trump supporters stick with him?

[edhopper]

The history of Cults tells us they will stay with him all the way, even if it means their own end.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. You hardly need to ask that question.

And the cult comparison is a very good one.

[Nevilledog]

2. Til the Rapture.

[ooky]

17. Good. They'll all fly away at once.

[treestar]

3. A small number will get away, as a small number to away

from Jonestown. The rest will drink the cool-aid.

[edhopper]

6. Or await the Comet

[3_Limes]

4. Until death do they part. N/T

[NightWatcher]

5. Mass ritual suicide would be great.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. that's a chilling reminder

[RKP5637]

7. They will stay with him. It's a cult and they are willfully brainwashed. n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. How long will Trump supporters stick with him? The Twelfth Of Never

[edhopper]

15. Earth Wind and Fire agree

[peggysue2]

9. Yup!

The cultish adherence is a hard one to break and can be absolutely fatal: Heaven's Gate, Branch Davidian, Jim Jones, etc. Once you drink the Koolaid, it's tough getting it out of your veins.

On the other hand as Mike Schmidt has said: 25% of the country has always been batshit crazy. Not sure what the solution for that is.

[meow2u3]

10. Until hell freezes over

[kentuck]

11. 90%+ will stick with him 'til the end.

Just enough to lose a landslide.

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. Until they are in the grave.

[Autumn]

13. Till the end. And beyond.

[dalton99a]

16. It is a full-blown cult.

So, yeah, fuck them

[inwiththenew]

18. I bet roughly 30% of them are the true believers that will be there until the end

Nixon had a 24% approval rating at the end and we live in a time that is more partisan.

[haele]

19. I'd say about 2/3rds of the 39% will actually stay with him.

The "usually GOP/sometimes Dems" moderates or safe-in-suburbia constituency who just couldn't get themselves to vote for Clinton no matter how awful Drumpf was have already pretty much defected in shame.

This included a lot of the casual "liberals are elitists" voters who thought they were being politically pragmatic when they voted for a "successful businessman" they saw on a TV reality show, as if they were voting for a mayor of a small city. Because most of those types live in large towns or small cities where a mayor doesn't really matter because they tend to run on auto-pilot so long as the big corporation, the state or federal government still provides the majority of the jobs in the area. Now these people are facing the fact that they aren't so independent from outside influences as they thought they were and that far-away federal elections really do affect them, so maybe they shouldn't casting votes based on personality...?

The rest of his supporters are either out and out sociopathic nihilists who have no problems being disposable so long as there's a group below them in the social hierarchy even more disposable they can shit on or do whatever they want to without repercussions, or infantilized religious sheep who want to give up all responsibility for thought or action in their lives to a Parental figure who promises them all the ice cream and the TV they want in the afterlife if they just do whatever Big Daddy tells them. So the sooner Big Daddy gets what an acting babysitter tells them He wants, the better for them. Of course, babysitter they listen to never seems tell them to that Big Daddy wants them to take care of their house and neighborhood, be respectful of others and share, and go to school and learn about the wide world around them - Big Daddy seems to want obedient kiddies to fulfill whatever whim the babysitter tells them He has.

These groups of supporters are not going to change. They've got too much emotional investment in their alternate universe viewpoint to come back to the Real World and the attendant responsibilities and repercussions their actions have in the Real World.

Haele