# How is trump still a viable candidate for president? Really, how? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [May 12, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-trump-still-a-viable-candidate-for-president-really-how/983949 "2023-05-12T14:28:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 680
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-trump-still-a-viable-candidate-for-president-really-how/983949/680 "2023-10-10T16:03:15Z")
> [@solost](#): > > “the pernicious genius of the trumpist approach is that trumpists don’t bother to promise anything to their followers that will make their lives better; only that they will hurt the people who their followers hate”. [Way back in 2009](http://outsidetheinterzone.blogspot.com/2009/10/of-sparrows-and-curtain-rods.html) a blogger named Davis X Machina summed the mindset up thus: > “The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.” There’s also [this classic line](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/trump-shutdown-voter-florida) from a Trump supporter during the 2019 shutdown: “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.” --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-trump-still-a-viable-candidate-for-president-really-how/983949)._