Wow! Scaramucci is sounding the alarm on Trump.

[Whiskeytide]

70. That's a great analysis, and I had not really considered ...

... the $ angle. The donor class has put up with him (and his magats) to get those special benefits you mentioned. But you’re right, he has brought too much chaos and instability to the circus, and I suspect their support will be luke warm in 2020.

I was thinking more in terms of who might vote for him in 2020 v who might vote for a more traditional republican candidate. The Rs still have to GOTV somehow.

trump swelled the republican rolls. I believe this has been under appreciated. I’ve posted before about the record voter registrations in 2016 in Alabama. CW says that’s usually good for democrats, but this time it happened in all the wrong counties. I think these new voters were previously disengaged deplorables who signed up just to vote for trump. And I suspect this occurred in many other states to a varying degree. They have been in the weeds for decades waiting for someone to dog whistle them out. He did. I also think they are the reason his polls stay higher than logic and historical patterns would suggest. They are the quintessential “he owns the libs” voters, they were mostly new to the game, and they tipped the scale more than we think.

These people will not have any passion for someone like Romney. They will only vote for someone like trump. I think what we have seen over the last three years is the republican party trying to figure out how to harness them and keep their votes without their general shitty-ness running off the mainstream republican voter. It’s approaching critical mass as he gets crazier and crazier.