THE GOP UNDERESTIMATED TRUMP IN PART BECAUSE IT OVERESTIMATED THE CONSERVATISM OF ITS OWN SOUTHERN, RURAL NORTHERN, AND MIDWESTERN BASE: “It underestimated the extent to which many of its voters hadn’t so much embraced the corporate conservatism of the Chamber of Commerce or the constitutional conservatism of the Tea Party as much as they had rejected the extremism of the increasingly shrill and politically correct Left. And, yes, the size of this population calls into question the very process of building a national Republican electoral majority, but it also threatens Democrats who seem intent on drumming every blue-collar white male straight out of the party.”

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