the election. Yes, he was always a miserable failure as a president and leader, but now, he isn't even pretending to care about those 70M people. It's a complete scorched earth campaign now. As for those 70M, they were always willing to trade good leadership for political expedience. Yes, many of them are uneducated idiots who will consistently vote against their own interests as long as the mouthpiece peddling it wraps themself in religious dogma, but the ones that actually matter support Trump because it benefits them to do so. When he stops even trying to do the job and takes on a tact of doing everything he can to fuck over the next POTUS and harm everyone in the US, most of the important supporters, and all of the intelligent ones will leave his side. They've already started to. Yes, the Republican outcry against his behavior is miserably deficient, but it still outpaces any Republican outcry to this point. Republican leadership wants to hold onto Trump voters, not Trump. He's making it easier for them to break his hold on his base by neglecting those 70M people publicly.