87% of republicans still support trump.

[jack69]

Why?? Still won't admit their error, I suppose. Don't let your guard down. What can we do to change their minds?

[TrekLuver]

1. Don't worry when it comes out that Trashbag and Company were colluding with the Russians

the deplorables won't be able to deny it any longer. Of course there will always be the die hards.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. They are using him to rubberstamp their agenda

But they are being forced to try to keep this crazed animal in line until they can do that.

[busterbrown]

3. Please attach a link..

Not that I don’t believe it, but I wanna see it in real time.

[jack69]

7. Couldn't find it again, were talking about trump's approval rating was 20 points below average

at this stage of the presidency. I'm not that advanced at all this, must be instructions somewhere.

[DefenseLawyer]

4. They see him as a strongman

They are frightened and demoralized and paranoid. They will be drawn to Trump so long as they think he is strong. They don't care about policy or competence or facts, just that Trump is going to kick somebody's ass.

[unblock]

5. "support" doesn't mean they're thrilled with everything about him.

it just means that whatever they don't like, whatever they're worried about, it isn't enough to abandon him.

strong loyalty (to party, not country) is one of the core values of the republican party, so it takes an awful lot for most republicans to abandon a president of their own party.

[jack69]

8. It took a lot for them to accept Nixon's involvement.

Even then, many stayed with him. Remember that line in "Sweet Home Alabama", "now Watergate does not bother me.." It bothered me. Now I can't listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd (sp?)

[sarcasmo]

6. Don't waste your time with a Trump bot. The millions who didn't vote are the key.

[jack69]

10. This was the real problem with the election.

Young people not voting even though it matters most to them.

[dalton99a]

11. +1

[monmouth4]

9. They're just like him, cannot admit they were wrong, just can't do it..n/t

[jack69]

14. My Sister in Law voted for trump because she could not vote for a liar!!!

Actually two more sisters in law, also. As well as my virulent trumpeteer sister.

[LaydeeBug]

15. what are they saying now? nt

[jack69]

19. Nothing

We don't talk much anyway. My wife talks to them occasionally, but luckily, she has seen the light even though she came out of a grossly racist situation with her parents.

[LaydeeBug]

21. Welcome to DU, and say something to them. Dont let this sit

Tether this around their neck

[uponit7771]

25. +1, it takes a lot to admit they're wrong about a persons character... Especially after being warned

[KingCharlemagne]

12. Cognitive dissonance. Anxiety-inducing to hold two mutually

contradictory beliefs at the same time; Trump is the leader of my party and Trump is a traitor. One way to reduce that psychic anxiety is to find ways to bring the two beliefs into balance. To wit, Trump is not a traitor because it's 'fake news.'

[Charles Bukowski]

13. Don't expect that to change either. If a drawer full of socks

decided to run as a Republican, it would get 60 million votes, easy.

[jack69]

17. The grand old party of crime

Google Spiro T Agnew, Tricky Dick, etc.

[LaydeeBug]

16. I don't trust the veracity of that number at all. nt

[jack69]

20. Guess that's why he is still standing.

[LaydeeBug]

22. No...that the KGOPB values power and party over Country (and Russia) is why he's still standing.

You're welcome

[nikibatts]

18. Someone said it is easier to be fooled than to admit that you were already fooled.

That!

[kentuck]

23. Nothing will change their minds.

Forget them.

Work with those those that didn't vote and help those that can be helped.

[Fast Walker 52]

24. think how fucked up you must be if you are still a Republican

All the shit your party has done, and they still come back for more. I'm sorry but they are not right in the head at all.

[MoonRiver]

26. Rump will change their minds.

Just give him time!

[JDC]

27. Did they mention Independents?

I think that was his tip of the scale...if you can call it that.

[HopeAgain]

28. We can't...

Living through what is likely to be a 1st class Republican shit show is probably the only thing that will change their minds.

[Stellar]

29. The answer is, most Republic0ns need to be normal...

..and that's just not something you're not going to find in their party. They're all little Trump's.

[blue cat]

30. Yes

All of them around me still support him. I've been told everything was Flynn's fault and now everything is good.

[Maru Kitteh]

31. I don't give a FUCK about changing their minds.

They lost the vote.

They only won the EC with the help of the Kremlin, Alex Jones, actual fake news, Wki-leaks, the entirety of RW radio, Nazis and the fucking head of the FBI.

They are WEAK. #TheResistance is strong and geting stronger every minute of every day.

Fuck the troglodytes. Let them fade and die, as nature dictates.

[Vogon_Glory]

32. They'll need to do some hurting before they wise up

I realize that this sounds callous, but the only way the Trump-publicans are ever going to wise up is through more hard-core hurting.

At the risk of offending my fellow DU'ers, things aren't too bad for most Trumpkins. The farmers might be alarmed by the promised immigration crack-down, but the Obama recovery hasn't sputtered to a halt, the ACA is still there, and so is much of the social safety net.

It's going to take a real economic (bleep-word)-storm and a lot of hurting for the dim 15-watt bulb of reason to switch on in most Trump voters' brains and inspire them to think that maybe, just maybe, Donnie and the Republicans are hurting them and maybe voting for Club Pachyderm was a mistake.

Unfortunately a lot of Progressives and people WE love and care about are going to have to suffer as badly or worse than wavering Trumpkins before they wise up.