Conservative politics is built on disgust

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6. On quick trigger responses, I agree 'disgust' is prominent and important.

However, at a deep level, a foundation element is 'hate.'

trump won the republicon nomination not by competence, trust, etc. trump won be showing more explosive hate than anyone else.
Hate, especially a deep hate, allows the hater to override any other considerations. That is why Klan and their sympathizers woke up for trump, racists of all brands, lot of anti-abortion types, etc. That is why trump corruption, incompetence, nasty 'zero' for separating children does not matter to trump's base - they tend to be serious, longterm, haters; loving the trump hate, [like the old Southern Governors used to do, 'nigras', etc. So effective, they got hordes of southern voters to switch parties even.]