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is that many who did vote for Trump were literally "1st time voters". He woke up quite a few of previously disengaged people - just like Obama did for many Democrats. These deplorables relegated to being the underbelly of our society and my hope is that they go back to sleep under their rocks. Their vileness and hatefulness has been exposed full bore - even moreso than when an initial group were activated and primed the "Tea Party" crap in 2010, because it is being nurtured and stoked from the top.
And agree that the guy in the video is definitely NOT the "exception", but they are also the ones sat back during the "Tea Party" nonsense and allowed it to take fruit (eventually getting hijacked by more and more social wedge issues given their supposed initial focus on "taxes" and "fiscal responsibility" ). They have learned that by lock-stepping, they can later petition for their own less extreme positions, although now they have been rebuffed.
Examples of that "moderate/conservate" GOP pivot include people like Orin Hatch and yes even Lindsey Graham, who were originally "annoying Republicans" who quickly realized that if they didn't go along with the crazy, then they would lose their seats. Hatch watched his former colleague in UT - Bob Bennett - get soundly "primaried" by the crazies, resulting in the election of Mike Lee, so he made the decision to go extreme before he retired. And yet this group was also apparently so appalled with the election of Obama to 2 terms that they decided to cut off their noses to spite their face (and that includes McConnell). But now they are regretting that botched surgery because that kept them from smelling the rot that their party has allowed to fester. 
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