He lost a lot of support among white nationalist types. To the extent he has any, it's either kosher white identity types, out of desperation, hoping he will shake thing up (essentially by accident), or just being too new to those politics to understand things.
When you are used to every single choice on the ballot being 100% against your interests, someone being only like 80% is a champion. Especially if you think the long game is that, regardless of said politician's intentions, a lot of their stated goals will be first steps towards your desired outcomes.
Its not hard to see why they went to bat for him when you consider politics outside of pure black/white binary on choices.
People had overlooked that in the past because of his public positions on immigration, trade, and wars.
Still made no sense to me.
Trump is always pro Trump not pro White like this crowd yearns for.
He lost a lot of support among white nationalist types. To the extent he has any, it's either kosher white identity types, out of desperation, hoping he will shake thing up (essentially by accident), or just being too new to those politics to understand things.
Oh yeah, and there are also grifters.
Interesting assessment of this dynamic.
When you are used to every single choice on the ballot being 100% against your interests, someone being only like 80% is a champion. Especially if you think the long game is that, regardless of said politician's intentions, a lot of their stated goals will be first steps towards your desired outcomes.
Its not hard to see why they went to bat for him when you consider politics outside of pure black/white binary on choices.