It's the two party system. If liberals are okay with 'pro lgbt muslims' and say things like 'gang violence isn't a problem' then people no longer vote for liberals.

Fair enough.

Trump doesn't have popular support. Many of his 2024 voters are furious with him.

What Trump has is oligarch support - an unholy alliance of weird and cranky tech billionaires, old(ish) money, foreign money, media owners, and insane white supremacist patriarch-wannabes, some of whom operate through think tanks, some through megachurches.

The media are doing an excellent job of normalising this, not least - but not only - sanewashing Trump's obvious mental and physical decay.

I want to believe this desperately, but from what I see (well, on YouTube videos, surveys and polls) it makes it very hard for me to do so. I still see massive endorsement from the not so well to do in the hinterlands.

I will however grant you that my sampling is no where close to uniform.

Unless all of the useful idiots in this thread are bots there is plenty of popular support. And it's not like they couldn't know better.

Does JB Pritzker, who many people want to run in 2028, have oligarch support?