[quote=FlyerInHi]Svelte, you’re on to something, except for the fact this the republican base is not extreme right when it comes to ideology. They are lower class, non-college educated nativist-populists.

The Republican Party is an alliance of urban economic elites and non-college educated Whites that is unraveling.

The suggestive tone that Trump is speaking “something is going on, Obama doesn’t get it, or he gets is better than anybody understands” is the same tone Republicans have been using to rile up their voters for decades. The anger is real and it’s a creation of the Republican establishment.[/quote]

Certainly what I said is an oversimplification, but I think it is at least partly true as is what you’ve said.

It is hard to make a broad statement about everyone who is a member of one of the two largest political parties in the US. There is room enough in that huge party to point to examples where we are all right – you, me, and temeculaguy.