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There is definitely a large chunk of Ron Paul supporters on the_donald. They talk about it all the time. They still use unfunny Ron Paul memes from time to time.

Well, I guess I should clarify: a large and vocal contingent of Trump's rabid online followers cites Ron Paul as their impetus for joining the "conservative" movement. Trump is pretty far away from Paul in actual policy mind you, so it is unclear how well these people are actually telling the truth. But I see it all the time, to the point where it seems reasonable to believe that it is at least partially true. Obviously not all Paul supporters became Trump supporters, or even a majority of them. But he was sort of the hot online Republican candidate before Trump, and a lot of his more fervent online supporters eventually made their way over to Trump bastions. It isn't so much that "all Trump supporters are former Ron Paul supporters" but rather the online presence that grew around him eventually morphed into what became the_donald and /pol/.

And the tea party supporters that came from him weren't the "SHOW US YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE" group, but rather the "government needs to be so small it can't effectively do anything" group. There were some people that joined the tea party for the casual racism, sure, but there were also those that were from the Ron Paul school of politics and just wanted little to no government, at all.
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