On November 8, 2016, 63 million Right-wing voters (and an unknown number of Russian trolls and hackers) elected Donald Trump the 45th President of the United States.

For the American Right, this was Revenge Time on Barack Obama. As they saw it, for eight years he had occupied—and defiled—the sacred Oval Office.

Now it was time to erase that memory—by putting in the White House a white man as racist and Fascistic as themeseleves.

Every four years, Republican voters search for a Presidential candidate who promises to humiliate and destroy those they hate among their fellow Americans.  These include:

• Blacks
• Hispanics
• “Uppity” women
• Liberals 
• Atheists
• Non-Christians
• The highly educated
• Asians
• Muslims
• The legitimate news media

In 2016, Donald Trump was unquestionably the candidate who got—and kept—their blood-lust running. His campaign took off early in the polls and never lost momentum—or high ratings.

This was especially true among rural, evangelical voters—for whom sex-drenched issues such as abortion and birth control are an obsession.

And they have continued to enthusiastically support him during his more than three-year Presidency. 

On August 30, 2017, an article in Salon examined why Donald Trump’s base supports him so fanatically: “Most Americans Strongly Dislike Trump, But the Angry Minority That Adores Him Controls Our Politics.”

It described these voters as representing about one-third of the Republican party:

“These are older and more conservative white people, for the most part, who believe he should not listen to other Republicans and should follow his own instincts….

“They like Trump’s coarse personality, and approve of the fact that he treats women like his personal playthings. They enjoy it when he expresses sympathy for neo-Nazis and neo-Confederate white supremacists.

“They cheer when he declares his love for torture, tells the police to rough up suspects and vows to mandate the death penalty for certain crimes. (Which of course the president cannot do.)

“…This cohort of the Republican party didn’t vote for Trump because of his supposed policies on trade or his threat to withdraw from NATO. They voted for him because he said out loud what they were thinking. A petty, sophomoric, crude bully is apparently what they want as a leader.”

Supporters giving the Nazi “Sieg Heil” salute to Trump

According to an August 29, 2017 survey by the Pew Research Center, they only comprise 16% of the population. That leaves 65% of Republicans who are revolted by Trump’s personality and behavior. But they are being advised by GOP political consultants to vigorously support him.

“Your heart tells you that he’s bad for the country,” one anonymous consultant told the Salon reporter. “Your head looks at polling data among Republican primary voters and sees how popular he is.” 

It’s precisely these hard-core Fascists who come out in mid-term elections—and they’re scaring the remaining 65% who make up the GOP establishment.

Donald Trump

That’s one reason why the vast majority of Republicans continue to fanatically support Trump: They fear he will turn his hate-filled base on them. 

This was recently underlined during a March 13 edition of “Washington Week in Review.” Asked whether Republicans will agree with a Democratic spending proposal to fight the Coronavirus plague, Toluse Olorunnipa, White House reporter for The Washington Post, replied that House Republicans were waiting for Trump’s approval:

“They are completely tied to him ever since the 2018 midterms in which so many of the moderate Republicans lost their seats. The remnants of the Republican Party is—has become the Trump party. 

“They have realized that if they’re going to keep their seats, if they’re going to be able to have any future in the party, they have to be completely tied to President Trump and really wait for his call in terms of what exactly they’re going to do. Whether or not they can support this is going to be based on whether or not the President tweets something saying ‘I support this bill.’

“So far there’s a lot in this bill that Democrats like—paid family leave, sick leave, support for the uninsured.  There’s not a lot of what President Trump wanted when it comes to things like trying to get a payroll tax cut or other tax cuts for businesses or industries that he thinks are impacted by this pandemic.” 

And why is Trump so concerned about getting a payroll tax cut?

Said Olorunnipa:

“President Trump is running for reelection, and that has made so much of a difference in terms of how this White House is responding. They’re looking at this through a political lens. They’re looking at the stock market.

“The President is looking for ways to sort of boost his position before the election. Even the payroll tax cut that he’s talking about, he wants it to last through the election so that Americans aren’t hurt economically as they go to the polls to decide whether to give him another four years in office.”

In short: Trump is willing to sacrifice the lives of untold numbers of Americans to get his way on a bill so he can ensure his own re-election