Trump Keeps Rolling on the Anger of the Masses

Pollsters can’t get a finger on the pulse of his supporters.

Joan Riscki, 67, a Phoenix resident and retiree, is an independent who voted for Mitt Romney in the general election in 2012. “I usually vote for Democrats, but it’s a bad situation now,” she told POLITICO outside Trump’s rally on Saturday. “They’re all liars anyways. I try not to listen to the news. I listen to KFYI,” a local conservative talk radio station.

Matt Bates, 52, a property manager from Scottsdale, who remains uncommitted to a presidential candidate, said he found out about the Trump event from his in-laws, who had heard about it on Fox News. “He’s not a politician, he’s a businessman,” Bates said of Trump’s appeal.

His wife, Stephanie, 52, a grocery store manager, said she supports Trump. “His views are similar to the GOP, but he’s not in anybody’s pocket,” she said. “You can’t trust the rest of them.”

Hazel Powell, 68, also of Phoenix, is a retired Peace Corps volunteer (she felt the need to leave the country after Obama’s election) and a fan of “The Apprentice,” Trump’s reality show on NBC. “I’ve always liked Donald with his television shows, his aggressiveness. He just speaks the truth,” she said.

Most politics is ideological, but here, what you are seeing, is a hatred of politicians in general, and an affinity for a man seen as the enemy of the corrupt and phony among the left and right. It gives Donald a bulletproof quality, where any attack on him will only in-group his supporters against the phony politicians even more. As that occurs, even those who ostensibly want to support other candidates may stick with Donald.

As economic conditions deteriorate, expect that anger to grow, and Trump’s support to grow as well.

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