As much as I hate to discuss the bipolar partisan political machine, the logic on this is fairly simple:  Facing the ultimate disaster of a Dubya presidency, which ran the economy and America itself off the rails--- to the point where, in the midst of a War on "Terror", a black man by the name of Barack Hussein Obama was handily elected President against  a decorated veteran and POW---The GOP badly needed SOMETHING to win back some house and senate seats, and that something was opening the flaps of the Big Tent to the racist far right.

That's when the TEA Party was born, after demagogues like Palin showed just how many were willing to come out from under their rocks to shake up the political establishment.

Now that we're back to the old white people again,Trump is the man to lead all the racist rats down to the political river:  Our Pied Piper, chanting his fascist cant of ultra-nationalism, sexism, and bigotry.

We are in for some interesting times.