That’s exactly my point though. They cannot be manipulated by anyone but Trump. They want to believe in him, therefore they will accept any excuse or bullshit he shovels out in their direction. Mark my words, they will be back on his side in no time. Nothing is more powerful than self-delusion.

Edit: further to my point, we need to stop trying to do anything with these people. We need to appeal to those who will not voted, who don’t engage because they’re sick and tired of politics as usual. People who are getting killed by our economy and don’t like Trump, but they also don’t like Democrats. We need more progressives and we need to get rid of the democratic party. Because their playbook was, is, and continually will be to try to appeal to conservative voters. New York City is a prime example of why. The Democratic party will pull out all the stops to try and prevent a progressive from taking an office. But they can’t be bothered to stop a conservative. Just look at the pathetic showing they gave in opposition to that Ugly Ass Bill. They took selfies and posed with baseball bats and looked shocked and horrified as nearly every Republican voted it into law. But they didn’t do a single real thing to try to stop it. Their attitude is, “well we’ll get em in the mid-terms”… Meanwhile millions of Americans are going to lose health coverage and billionaires are going to line their pockets with that Medicaid money.