For those who want to understand the vast differences between elite and everyday Republican voters, this past weekend was a perfect study in contrasts.
Donald Trump — who has a rich-daddy-funded college degree he definitely didn't earn — spent the weekend communing with the bulk of Republican voters, who love basking in MAGA red meat, served raw. Despite agreeing in court last week not to threaten potential witnesses in upcoming trial for his attempted coup, Trump did just that, repeatedly, singling out his former vice president, Mike Pence, for the same vitriol that inspired Trump followers to threaten Pence's life on January 6, 2021. Trump also issued one of his unhinged stemwinders in Alabama over the weekend, blaming imaginary "Marxists" and "communists" for his legal woes, as opposed to his own choice to conspire to overthrow democracy. And, in a pattern we've all become numb to, the more garish Trump gets in his fascistic language, the more the GOP base swoons over him. There is no "too far" with these folks. They clearly adore Trump not just because he's a violent, racist pig, but also because he's so damn proud of it.
