Mr Unpopular
by digby
No other Republican winner in the primary era has had as little as 42% support in Gallup’s final measure of nomination preferences, with George W. Bush’s 57% in 2000 the lowest before now.
He’s 15 points below the previous low point. That’s pretty amazing.
I am guessing some of this is him — they just don’t care for him. But it’s also the radicalization of the Republican base. They don’t trust the Party anymore.
It’s one thing for Democrats to deal with that — they tend to mistrust authority a little bit more than Republicans (at least at times.) But it’s a big change for the conservative Party if the base no longer knows its place. What does an inherently hierarchical system do in such a situation?
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