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And for whatever reason, they’re still on board with it.The apparent takeaway is that they didn't vote for Trump for the "drain the swamp" promise.
Where are the approval numbers for various things, among Repubs:
-bombing Iran 63%
-ground troops in Iran 20%
-Trump's handling of the economy 63%
-Trump's foreign policy, overall 74%
-Trump's handling of immigration 81%
This article has an interesting take: the GOP has made corruption appear so normal, that it doesn't upset their base.
Numb to corruption: How Republicans trained their base to ignore Trump’s criminality
First, Republicans normalized the idea that all politicians are corrupt by electing a series of deeply corrupt politicians themselves. Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush have all been warm-up acts to Trump. Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair, falsified intelligence to justify the Iraq invasion: Every one of those presidents helped train their voters to defend political corruption if it was conducted for supposedly meritorious ends.
Second, Republican politicians trained their base to think of investigations as bad-faith political power grabs by themselves using investigations primarily, if not solely, for this purpose. Ever since the Bill Clinton presidency, Republicans have invented a steady stream of Democratic “scandals” to gin up fake umbrage, from Whitewater and Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky to whatever the hell was supposed to be scandalous about “Benghazi.”
All these endless, pointless investigations and scandal-mongering over Democratic behavior that wasn’t corrupt, much less criminal, has primarily served to indoctrinate the conservative masses into believing that “investigations” are never truly serious, but just a tool for partisans trying to score political points. They are now throughly primed to interpret the investigations into Trump’s very real corruption as nothing more than Democrats seeking revenge for decades of mistreatment by Republican hacks.salon.com - Numb to corruption how republicans trained their base to ignore trumps criminalitySo, the base has been inoculated against corruption charges, and they are more interested in seeing the regime beat up on immigrants?
Steve
