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Because Trump isn't - and never has been - the problem.

It's not like he came out of nowhere and took over the country by force, or hid his true intentions, or anything like that. For whatever else you can say about him, Trump was plainly transparent from his very first press event announcing his candidacy of exactly what sort of a person he was and how he would govern. He said he'd build a wall, get rid of the elites ("elites", in this context, meaning anyone with a brain and/or relevant job experience to what they're doing), be hostile to immigrants, and generally act like a disruptive asshole and lo and behold that's exactly what he's done.

Trump is where the Republican party has been slowly trending for decades, beginning with the end of the Reagan years where the party decided to lean less on conservative econopolitical principles and more on social hotbutton issues to get out the vote. He's an ugly caricature of what they've become, but not really all that inaccurate of one; the dishonesty, the know-nothingism, the identity politics, none of that is new. The Republicans have been fostering - or, at least, tolerating - the proponents of that sort of political skulduggery for a long time now and it's finally become the dominant force in the party. The only thing that really separates Trump from someone like Dick Cheney or Newt Gingrich is that Trump doesn't bother to hide his political warts or dress them up in nice language.

So yeah, it doesn't surprise me at all that Trump still enjoys the full-throated support of the nation's Republicans; thus far, he hasn't broke ranks with them in any significant way. Absent a major economic collapse, open war, or some other disaster that Trump proves himself completely incapable of adequately addressing, I don't think his approval rating will ever dip below ~35%.
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