I have some further thoughts about the GOP elites being out of touch with GOP voters. See what you think.
It appears the people whose money supports GOP candidates and the people whose votes those candidates need to get elected have more-than-slightly different value sets, different interests.
Most of the campaign money comes from wealthy individuals. Most conservative votes come from not-wealthy individuals.
The former like open borders and lots of immigrants, legal and otherwise, the latter do not. The former are social liberals, but economic conservatives; the latter tend to be conservative both socially and economically.
Conservative voters have been happy to let the wealthy fill the GOP coffers, as long as their interests and ours coincided. The level of agreement appears to be fading.
After a free ride for decades, are we ready to pony up our hard-earned cash to support candidates who agree with us? Probably not, hence Trump who needs our votes but doesn't need our money, or their money and therefore has the freedom to say he agrees with us. It remains to be seen if he truly agrees.
