The vast majority of Trump’s supporters are angry white nationalists whose lives aren’t all that great and they look to Trump to right those wrongs. He cannot, and likely would not even significantly try in office, this core of supporters view anything he says as ‘sticking it to the man’, that has allowed black liberation, Hispanic immigration and other things they blame for the collapse of the “white man.”
This isn’t something easy for me, a life long Republican, to say–but the reality is the GOP is no longer a functioning political party. The White Nationalists we have tolerated to win elections have taken over the party, only a purging fire can restore it.
Clinton’s task is to make sure the “middling” voters who might vote Trump but aren’t his core supporters, recognize how inherently unfit for the Presidency he is and vote for her as the only remaining “competent candidate of a rational America.”