Trump has solidified his lead in the GOP race by convincing most Republican voters to view his four criminal indictments as a politicized witch hunt aimed at him but them . The choice by most GOP leaders and voters alike to rally around Trump amid felony charges underscores again how much protection that sense of victimhood provides him against behavior previously considered fatal for any political leader . The broad rejection of the charges against Trump within the GOP base marks a milestone not only in its personal allegiance to him but also in those voters systemic alienation from the major institutions in American life . Theres really been this effort on the right among Republicans to use distrust to stoke their base and mobilize their base says Amy Fried professor of political science at the University of Maine and coauthor of the book At War With Government How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to Trump . The Republican coalition it is a moment that has culminated decades of change and one that points to years of turbulence ahead, says Fried and other experts . The only thing that shifts is the topic and the object of blame for blame is the issue of local police and local police, says Eric Plutzer of the Mood of Mood of the Nation . If local police are not much different than unpatriotic careerists. If local cops are not different than patriotic careerists, they are not not much unpatriotists, say Plutter says the lawyers and others come to be seen as come to protect themselves. If Local police are unpatribriotic. They are not unpatriots. They come to the FBI. If they come to defend themselves. They say they are. They have come to their jobs. If you want to protect yourself. If there is a problem. It’s
Why Republican voters believe Trump is the president of the U.S. House .
