Trump's Hold on the GOP Rank and File Continues to Be Amazing

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5. It's less mysterious if you look at it this way...

Republicans have loved, loved, loved conservative ranters for decades. They love having all their pet peeves and bigotries tickled by guys "just telling it like it is." These guys can go all out, because they're not actually responsible for anything. They don't have to run a government, they say "I'm just an entertainer" to justify their endless streams of bile, rumors, and misinformation.

Rush has been the star of a fanatical fan club for 30 years, and they'll go after anyone who bad-mouths him, or any Republican who simply doesn't agree he has talent on loan from God. Any Republican pol who said something less than praiseworthy about him was on his show the next day trying out for the Olympic backpedaling team.

How about Glenn Beck? The whole Tea Party was practically The Glenn Beck Fan Club, and people ate up his every smear on that chalk board.

The same with all of them: Sean, Tucker, Savage, Charlie Sykes before he bailed out, Billo, the whole stable of Fox Blondes.

They could all be ranting cranks and loved for it. The only thing better is if any of them was actually in charge of the whole shebang.

Then along comes Trump, who says all the same things they eat up AND THEY MADE HIM PRESIDENT!!!

He keeps saying the stuff they eat up. The libs are out to get him, just like they've been out to get Rush and the rest but couldn't do it. So now is the time to rally around their president.

None of this behavior is really new, it's just showing up in places it hadn't been seen before.