I think, I have identified Trump's biggest political nemesis.

[DetlefK]

It's the republican voter.

Nonononono. Wait. Think about it.



It started with the Tea Party. They were "economically anxious" that a black man was now in the White House.

The GOP took that "anxiety" and whipped their voters into an extremist, partisan frenzy to pilfer them for votes and donations. (There are numerous tales of Tea Partiers being scammed by fellow Republicans.)

Soon, anybody who wasn't extremist enough in the GOP lost their primary-races. The surviving GOP-politicians where either full-on racists or spine-less, power-hungry, amoral opportunists willing to say anything.



Now there's President Trump. With a democratic-controlled House, he was finally boxed into a situation where he has to make more policy than writing headlines and catchphrases.

Trump must negotiate something, somehow. The Republicans must negotiate something, somehow.

But they can't.

As soon as Trump and the Republicans move away from their extremist positions, those very same republican voters will punish them for not being pure enough. Because the GOP has taught them that anybody who isn't pure enough must be punished.






https://www.axios.com/government-shutdown-daca-green-cards-jared-kushner-e438872b-af64-4675-81d5-6a8bdde6b62f.html

"Trump can withstand Ann Coulter. He can't lose Hannity and the rest," the senator said.