What Trump says resonates with people who vote in Republican contests. He's thrown out the dog whistle and they love it.
Like, I get how it works from a demographics perspective and who those people are, I grew up around them. What I don't get is how people can be this dumb, and how we as a collective species could allow such stupidity to persist to this point?
Since that sounds strangely eugenicist, I meant how we could allow the stupidity that is Trump to last to this point in the campaign. Like, this reflects on us as a supposedly rational species that we're witnessing this.
They're not necessarily dumb. They're fed up with mainstream politicians (Rubio, Bush, Kasich, sort of Cruz) and Trump has more name recognition than Carson. Since Trump is the only contending candidate who is from outside the mainstream, they're gravitating toward him.
Okay, so let me rephrase this, if they're not dumb, would you describe any Trump supporter as smart?
I know Trump supporters I consider rational.
Well, yeah, I could've phrased it better, but that is half of what I meant, that we as a rational species have had a disconnect somewhere in that a sizable portion of our society supports Trump.
ETA: And Cruz just won Texas. I think he gets all the delegates if he wins more then 50%, otherwise they all split pro rata. But, I'm not sure on that. Whatever the case, he also won Oklahoma. So, he's back in it. Kind of.
And Trump won Virginia.