I believe, republican voters support Trump simply to piss off their parents.

[DetlefK]

The GOP establishment whipped them up.
The GOP establishment radicalized them.
The GOP establishment made promises.

And then the GOP establishment broke those promises.

Republican voters supporting Trump is basically the same situation as a teenage-girl picking an "unsuitable" boyfriend just to piss off her parents.

She doesn't really know him and at first it's only her anger that keeps her in this relationship.

Then she feels this emptiness inside her, the lie, that her relationship has no real basis.

She is aware that there are not many things that connect her to her boyfriend.

Admitting that her boyfriend is merely a tool of vengeance would backfire on her and prove that she's bad at making decisions.

So she doubles down. She tries to replace quantity with quality and projects all sorts of desires into him and their relationship.

Desperately trying to justify the relationship, she makes up reasons why somebody should be with him. She replaces him with a larger-than-life version of himself. She tries to turn him into somebody else. Because she cannot admit that she picked a loser just to piss off her parents.






And so, working-class republican voters end up supporting a guy they have nothing in common with. He's outrageous, he's unlikable, but damn have you seen the looks on the faces of the GOP establishment when they snuggle up to him?

And now that they have picked Trump, will the voters crawl back to the GOP establishment?

Will they crawl back to the very people who hurt and disappointed them?

NEVER!!!

They look at his unrealistic, insulting, sociopathic statements and make up excuses for him: "He will make America great again!"
Not supporting Trump would mean admitting that they have been wrong.
And they cannot admit that they have been wrong to leave the GOP establishment.

Whether he talks about the concentration camps for illegal immigrants he wants to build, or the children he wants to bomb, or the prisoners he wants to torture...
They have picked him.
And they cannot leave him without losing face.

[liberal N proud]

1. You are giving them way too much credit

It don't think they are that smart.

[mikehiggins]

2. Trump is a dangerous man.

Us New Yawkers who've seen him in action get a cold chill down our backs at the thought of his moving into the White House. We also don't doubt that he'll find his way into doing just that.

The people who think he is a bumbling buffoon really don't see him for the shark he is and that will be a big problem in the next few months. All the GOPuke establishment has in its armory are the sad survivors of a really bizarre collection of losers and ideological idiots.

Gingrich was right in blasting Fauz News. They helped drop the blood into the water and now the predator is in their swimming pool.

Are we allowed to compare this to Hitler's rise to power yet? Not one to one, point by point, of course but the KKK people already have their uniforms. Okay, the uniforms are white instead of brown but you get my point.

[busterbrown]

3. One thing though

"he GOP establishment radicalized them.
The GOP establishment made promises.

And then the GOP establishment broke those promises. "

Most Republicans who dwell in the Middle Class, have no idea of what drives the economy and how it was Republican economic policies which destroyed the economy..So in my opinion they have no clue about what promises the GOP made and how they broke them.. They still blame Obama for everything which is wrong with their lives...and you can credit much of this to Fox News...

GOP’s only goal was to destroy Obama’s Presidency, which meant they would never support any fundamental
programs ( work programs to fix our infrastructure) which would drive the economy forward..