Trump’s base is reported to hover around 30 to 35% of registered Republicans. He didn’t assemble this base. He simply descended the escalator and took his place as the candidate many Republicans had been the looking for all of their political lives. What made him such a good fit? It’s almost as though the media (which Trump takes such delight in excoriating) held a giant mirror up for Republicans to see themselves in, warts and all. What did they see in that proverbial mirror? They saw Trump. No human on earth encapsulates so many of the Republican Party’s worst attributes: bigotry, mendacity, misogyny, narcissism, you name it. Trump has them all, some in the extreme. And because he is so Republican in his own right, physically, mentally, philosophically and in every other way, he will always be “their guy”, the consummate Republican. And he can count on that base to have his back in any situation. There is no more reliable GOP cohort than the Trump base.
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