The New York Post’s Michael Goodwin makes an interesting claim about the hold Donald Trump seems to have on roughly half the Republican electorate. See if you agree:
The driving force in Trump’s staying power is the conviction among his supporters that they are the ultimate target of both the radical left and the corrupt deep state, and that the prosecutions are tantamount to persecutions of him and them.
Trump has often enough made the assertion that his supporters are the true target of those subjecting him to lawfare. Goodwin appears to conclude the supporters have accepted the claim, I am less certain.
I prefer to think Trump is viewed as a ‘grenade’ supporters can lob into the nest of repulsive social justice warriors in Washington. His effectiveness in that role is validated by the Herculean efforts the SJW crew have made to torpedo him.
Think of him as the outrageous anti-Pence. The more the establishment hates Trump, the more fun his supporters can have voting for him. Him being unfairly indicted makes him even more ‘explosive’ as a cat among Washington’s mutant pigeons.
