Trump's Hold on Rural America is Key to His Resiliance

Why?

I don't know.

   I guess rural America is just slow to adopt (aka: more judicious about adopting) both the good ideas and the bad ideas of urban/elite America. 

   Trump's basically a celebrity--as was Obama, and as are many or most successful Presidential candidates. Moreso with Trump, of course. He's kinda like the constellation of progressive celebrities on social media hawking their half-baked, ill-informed, invariably trendy and lefty-feely political preferences. Except he's basically an old-school conservative-ish Democrat. The Democrat party has rocketed to the radical left. Trump decided to shift parties, and now he's their celebrity anti-Dem / anti-lefty. He's right about a lot--or, more to the point: he refuses to be sucked into being wrong about so damn much. And, unlike most people in public life, he can't be whipped into line by screeching hoardes leftistly calling him racist (etc.) He's got an admirably fuck you attitude. It makes him an asshole. But it also keeps him from being a sheep. Just watching a prominent politician refusing to quake and bend the knee before mobs of shrieking cultists and their agents...it's bracing. Even if the guy is an asshole. In fact, to stand up against such mobbish screeching, it helps to have a kind of assholish streak. (And, I mean, I should know...) 

   That might come close to making it seem like I think that rural Americans are righter about this purely because of their virtue--and Trump's. Which is almost certainly false. It's probably a mixture of virtue and vice, rationality and irrationality.

   Also, to be clear: I currently think that Trump is unsupportable. But I still think that any plausible Dem is unsupportable. What we got there is yer basic Kobayashi-Maru-type situation. We're damned if we do, and damned if we do the other thing, too. It's damnation all the way around. It's support the loony jackass who has a decent platform, or some representative probably to be named later of the Party That Lost Its Mind. I still basically think that the loony jackass is the less-shitty bet. There's no way I will vote blue again unless/until they break the grip of the progressive left. Will I vote for the lesser (very great) evil (again) this time around? Dunno.