Corsi, that nuance you just displayed is more nuance than the trump campaign has shown through the entire campaign. I could probably say with accuracy that you and I are on the same side of the fence when it comes to organized religion and violence specifically when it comes to the religion of Islam, but neither of us would ever consider voting for trump because we both know Trump doesn't stand for some kind of beacon of straight talk about Islam, he's a shyster crook who doesn't engage in rational debate or point - counter-point discussions.
I see lots of jockeying to paint Trump's rise as some kind of anti-establishment vote but I really don't think that is the case at all. With Cantor and other politicians, the Tea Party movement was the anti-establishment wave of idiots who couldn't identify who or what the establishment was, but they knew they didn't like it.
I honestly think that what Hillary said about Trump's supporters being largely racist was too conservative of an estimate. Trump has made a plain appeal to racism, xenophobia and misogyny in this campaign and has avoided most of the dog whistles traditionally used in favour plain language.
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