Comment by mindslight

Trumpists aren't actually deserving the label "conservative". They're the complete opposite - a mashed together hodgepodge of anti-everything grievance politics. Trump's main feature is a stream of drivel that sounds honest, opinionated, and assertive if you only listen to part of it. If you try to listen to everything he says and logically reconcile the statements, it's all contradictory. The only consistency is that grievance emotion. So it has created a big tent of follower-type people who value emotion over intelligence (think the stereotypical mind-blown hippie, man), from all sorts of (what are effectively) counter cultures. It doesn't matter that they aren't implementing good solutions, and that a lot of time there aren't any good solutions. The followers are just happy "someone is talking about it [, man]".