Yes but politicians of all stripes have been doing that forever and getting away with it. You would hardly expect the electorate to start caring now.

But I think there is a lot of truth to the idea that lower class Republicans think all politicians are out to fuck them over, so the bigger the fuck you they can elect the better. Fuck the women, fuck the minorities, fuck our allies, fuck kids, fuck our neighbors, fuck being calm and rational, fuck logic and intelligence, hell fuck ourselves. They are nihilists, which isn’t even a fucking ethos, Donny!

ahem

Anyway, yeah they jumped on the bull and held on to wherever it was going until it finally bucked them off.