Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Trump's Followers

Robert Tracinski writes for The Federalist on this subject: who are the Trump partisans? He identifies six possible subgroups, who range from "low information" voters to angry racists. Tracinski estimates the importance of each subgroup, and concludes:
Trump is likely to be relevant only if the non-Trump Republican nominee ends up being particularly weak and uninspiring.

You don’t suppose there are any chances of that happening, do you?

Which is to say that perhaps the wise thing to do is to spend less time focusing on Trump and more time figuring which is the strongest, most principled, and most inspiring of the other nominees.
That lets out Jeb, John, Lindsey, Rand, Ben, two Ricks, George, Jim, Mike, Bobby, Chris, Scott and Carly. Who's left? Ted and Marco. Of those two, Marco probably cannot win the anti-immigrant bloc who now favor the Donald whereas Ted can. Maybe a Cruz/Fiorina ticket?