I keep trying to grapple with Trump's appeal and I just don't get it. Now with mini rant.

[Cary]

28. Nothing "conservatives" do surprises me any more.

It is liberals who don't vote, insist that "both sides do it," or otherwise don't see that Republicans/"conservatives" are the enemy. Yes, they are dangerous.

Trump is pandering. Trump is a demagogue. He feeds the base the raw meat they crave, which is hate. That's really what "conservatism" is all about. They hate minorities because they feel that their way of life is somehow threatened. They wax nostalgic for the way they thought things used to be, without remembering the bad parts. And "political correctness" is really code for "I want my 'freedom' to hate without being told I'm a racist or a hater."

Actually they are not conservative at all. They really are fascists, and they must always have "other." Their definition of "other" changes. Often times liberals are "other." Goebels said "We decide who is Jewish." What "conservatives" do is no different.

I have been attacked even here (which shocks me) for identifying their dangerous ideology as dangerous. Why some here ever believed they would ever be accepted by teabaggers is way beyond me.

Democrats are not perfect, and they never will be perfect. But Democrats are not the enemy. Trump isn't even the worst of the lot and actually it's rather fascinating that he appeals to Evangelicals. The religious right was never about religion, and the fact that they will overlook Trump's glaring lack of religious bona fides proves that beyond any doubt. They are about hate. Period.