What would make Trumps base supporters turn on him?

I would quibble with the “barely” there.

Based on everything he has said and done thus far and all his proven lies, he is immune from losing his loyal, core followers. He is like that televangelist, recently on the news, who wears a four figure suit, a Rolex watch, and who is campaigning for a $60 million private jet so that he “can spread the word of God”. They see nothing wrong.

Not everyone who voted from him is in his base. He got some votes by people wanting to extend the middle digit to Hillary, some would have voted for a wet dog turd if was a Republican dog turd. Some just wanted to shake things up. I think most of these people could be turned away from him. The hard core MAGA crowd, no there’s nothing that would phase them. He could run puppies through a wood chipper, screw his daughter on live TV, and dynamite the Lincoln Memorial and his supporters would just say “Haw haw! Sweet liberal tears!” They are brainwashed and unthinking, and when he gets frog-marched into Leavenworth, they’re going to burn the country down.

If they see it as rightful punishment, it will not.

AIUI the idea is that the people at the border were asking for it by trying to enter the nation illegally, or so the sentiment goes, and that they could have averted it by not coming it to the border.

Immigrants who legally apply for asylum at ports of entry are also being separated from their children.

That is hilarious!

Looked at Google News and there is a link to Fox News with a headline of “Willie Nelson says Christians should be outraged over separating families at border”. I decided to take a gander and the comments are what I expected:

Hey Willie, What about the crappie parents that would drag their children to the US border, cross over as now illegals and putting their children at risk of being separated from them. NO one wants children separated from their parents, but when stupid parents do stupid things, someone has to act in the interest of the children then their parents break the law. It happens everyday all across the country and no one seems concerned about the children except at the border. So what’s up with that?

Why should I be outraged that families are being separated at the border because some if not all of them are here illegally in the first place. They chose to break the law thus they chose this not us or anywhere else in America that are following the law. Sorry Willie you are a has been and need to fade away.

This Administration is NOT at fault here! It is the LAW that the Democrats instilled!!! Willie, I know you are a Democrat and that is ok, everyone has some kind of handicap!

And on and on and on. Bunch of vile, piece of shit deplorables.

LOL. I closed my eyes, and this vision gave me an “O” face. Oh-oh-oh! (Drew from Office Space).

Instilled?

As someone else pointed out elsewhere, in the unlikely event that Trump does get impeached and imprisoned, it probably won’t be a general prison alongside of thieves and murderers and rapists, but rather, a very comfy resort-like prison for VIPs.

Maybe we got a barren rock in the Aleutians we can build it on.

So it’s really a matter of crossing the rubes he conned.

:smiley:

Not a PMITA prison?

WHOA! That’s a beaut! <Dazzled>

Oh my gosh, that’s beautiful.

After thirty years of deliberate dehumanization of foreigners? No.

This is encouraging.

Why Southern Baptists giving Mike Pence a platform is so controversial

This isn’t about turning the hard-core supporters (a lost cause IMHO), but about losing moderates who want the Party back.

Riling Up the Base May Backfire on Trump

Opinion piece by a Democratic pollster. My bold.

If only. The message to the fence sitters will be: “OMG, you want NANCY PELOSI!?!??”

Another one that I don’t know exactly where to post. But I guess it comes under the heading of “unexpected and gratifying places where opposition is coming from.” Looks like Jeffy Beauregard is in danger of being excommunicated from the Methodists.

My emphasis below.

Hundreds of United Methodist clergy bring church charges against Jeff Sessions

I say we bring back the stocks and pillory. Yeah, this was more of a Puritan thing, but hey, the Methodists can borrow it. I’d love to see Jeffy pilloried on the cover of TIME magazine.

This might get some attention. I’m guessing there are some Harley riders among thump supporters.

Harley-Davidson, Blaming E.U. Tariffs, Will Move Some Production Out of U.S.

Just hafta figure out how to blame this on Obama.