How on earth is this explainable in any other way than sports fandom that refuses to look beyond the jersey that the candidate is ostensibly wearing?

What’s most baffling is that the people who are voting for Trump are the ones who proclaim loudly that they are the ones who stand for issues while the “Establishment” (which somehow includes me, a lawyer from Nashville who has never lived or worked in DC in his life) cares only about expanding their power.

The fandom of Trump has become so bizarrely Orwellian and devoid of self awareness that a Trumpbart headline actually read yesterday, with no trace of irony: “While the Establishment Demands Purity, Trump Expands the Base.” Seriously.

Say what you want about Glenn Beck, but he is almost alone among the prominent national radio and TV voices on the right who has refused to attempt to monetize the Trump boom by treating it as a legitimate expression of conservatism. Glenn Beck’s point is not that Trump supporters are racist; rather, Glenn Beck’s point is that his supporters are doing it for reasons that have nothing to do with what Trump stands for. And he is attempting to get people to look in the mirror and realize what the basis of their support really is.