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The authors of a N.Y. Times article do make a reasonable argument for why Trump is even in the race for the GOP nomination. They assert he is desperate to be taken seriously as a superior American and wants to prove it to the Republican establishment. They wrote that “Mr. Trump’s campaign is driven by a deep yearning sometimes obscured by his bluster and bragging: A desire to be taken seriously.”
However reasonable that claim may be, it is likely that winning the nomination will be the ultimate “act of revenge against the establishment” that has shunned him as a celebrity joke and refuses to allow him to control anything related to the Party.
It is that sense of getting revenge, only against 21st Century American society and culture that drives Trump’s angry white Christian base. It is the same base the Palins among the GOP represent who want to get their own “payback” against an increasingly not white, not Christian, and not bigoted population. It is the “take our country back” several decades mindset that Trump guarantees to see to fruition.
The kind of people who love Donald Trump most are angry they are not the center of, or control, all American life and culture; it drives the current “make America great again” movement that began when Americans elected an African American man as President. These “so-called Americans” see the nation with a Black President and more diverse population as an abomination to “their white Christian” America and it drives their heartfelt embrace of Trump’s mantra that “it’s payback time.”
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