"How are the Trumpbots coping with Trump's apparent flip flop on illegals?"
Apparently
some of them aren't taking it very well at all.
When Glenn decided to take a few phone calls from Donald Trump supporters, he probably wasn’t expecting one of the spookiest calls of his life. Nate from Virginia called in to Glenn’s radio program Wednesday to explain why he was voting for Trump. The call took an unexpected turn when Glenn asked about how trustworthy Trump could be with his promises.
The caller gave a disturbing ultimatum. “As long as he does the basic things, the foundational things, which is build a wall, he’s not going to have people like me coming after him,” Nate said. Watch the clip from The Glenn Beck Program: Trump Fan Makes Threats on Air Glenn sought clarification.
“Okay. So if he doesn’t build a wall like China, then he’s in trouble,” Glenn said. “It’s the wall that is your line?” The caller’s reply was dangerously threatening.
“Oh, he’s in so much trouble,” he said. “You don’t even understand the backlash of us, the ones who are so frustrated and angry and tired of all the political stuff. We’re going to come after him personally. You know what I mean? We’re going to get him.”
Glenn gave the caller every opportunity to clarify what he was saying. “I don’t know what you mean,” Glenn said. “Hang on. What does that mean?” He must have meant impeachment, right? Yes, but it didn’t stop there. Apparently, violence wasn’t out of the question for Nate.
“Well, I mean, hey, you yourself said he’s condoned violence in the past, hasn’t he?” came Nate’s reply.
Glenn couldn’t hide his shock at what he was hearing. The caller went on with a chilling threat: I’m just saying, he’s appealing to people who are very frustrated and angry. Their frustration and anger can only be subsided if he makes his promises true. And he has a lot on his shoulders. Maybe he himself doesn’t even know how much. But if he doesn’t come through for us, he’s going to have bigger problems, bigger problems than what you know. That was enough to make Glenn declare this the “spookiest” phone call he’d ever received.
I knew it was just a matter of time before the Trumpeteers became fed up with Trump. How? Trump's base of support is extremely right wing binary thinkers. Well, one can't in effect tell binary thinkers "we're gonna have a deportation force and send all the illegals packing because they are stealing jobs Americans should have" and then months later essentially say "we may not have a deportation force, but we're going to send them packing and then readmit the 'good ones.'"
Were Trump's base the moderate Republicans, a step left or right wouldn't be a big deal. But his base is a bunch of far right poorly educated people. They see everything, literally, only as comprehensively as can be addressed in a tweet or two; when someone tries to explain the full spectrum of a topic to them, they have only some sort of deflective reply. They are 100% certain about their infallibility on everything. Think they are smart, yet can't get any job that requires one to actually be smart.
There's just no reasoning with folks like that; it's their way or the highway. But for better or, more likely, worse, Trump has ingratiated and inured himself with those folks. At this point, Trump's only real option with them is to hope they "get over" the extreme promises he made. Of course, doing that makes him no different than all the other politicians that run for office, which, of course, is what Trumpeteers claim they are unable to abide.
