You can put the whole “how could anybody vote for Trump” thing to rest with a simple hypothetical: Imagine Donald Trump is a democrat. Everything about him is the same, but he’s running as the Democrat nominee. On the other side, the Republican says that if he wins he will return the US to segregation and he has the Supreme Court nominees ready who will allow him to do it. That’s it. That’s literally all you have to imagine. On the one hand you have Trump. On the other hand you have a policy landscape that is beyond the threshold that any liberal would be willing to tolerate. In that scenario 100 out of 100 liberals votes for Trump. This very simply proves the point that literally everybody understands that there is some policy threshold beyond which you would vote for a candidate like Trump. Many ordinary Republicans feel like the current liberal platform is beyond that threshold. This isn’t at all complicated or weird or difficult to understand, so anybody who rejects it is either a liar or dimwitted. We all understand this framework. We all accept this framework. There isn’t a single person reading this who wouldn’t in some situation adopt this framework.