When it came to finding support from the extremist lunatic
conservative base known as the “Alt-Right” movement, Donald Trump never
had to look any further than Sarah Palin for support. She endorsed him
early in the primary season. He toured with him in Iowa. She attacked
Paul Ryan by proxy when the Speaker dared to meekly stand up to Trump’s
extremism. But in a sign that the Alt-Right loons are inevitably
imploding, Palin is now publicly attacking Trump.
Even as Donald Trump has finally begun to realize that he can’t
win the election as long as he clings to his extremist and racist
conservative policies such as building a money-wasting wall on the
border, or promising to deport eleven million people in a manner which
would be tantamount to genocide, he’s gingerly explored methods of
trying to back of some his most absurd premises. But as he’s begun to
hint that he might not build his pointless symbolic wall after all,
Sarah Palin is tearing him a new one for it.
Palin is now
slamming
Trump for being “wishy-washy” and a “massive disappointment” as he
desperately scrambles to paint himself as being less insane in the eyes
of normal voters. Her criticism encapsulates the corner which Trump is
now backed into. If he sticks to the extremist positions that got him
through the primary, he’ll lose the general election badly. But if he
backs off those positions, not only is it unlikely he’ll change the
minds of moderate voters who have decided he’s a nutcase, he risks
losing his existing support base in the process.
Worse, because Donald Trump has spent a year courting the votes
of mentally unstable conservative extremists while stoking their
insanity even further for his own gain, they now appear to be turning on
him in disturbing ways. One Trump supporter called in to the Glenn Beck
show this week and
threatened violence
against Trump if he doesn’t build his promised wall. So as much as
Sarah Palin is a national punchline, her attacks on Trump are indicative
of a larger problem he’s facing with this Alt-Right base.
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