Is there a unifying political philosophy for the Trump wing of the Republican party? It seems to me--and I'm not well-read on this which is why I am asking so I'm admitting I could be wrong--that the one unifying thing is that they support Trump, don't think he should have been impeached or investigated, etc.
Is that just the media spin? Is there more than a support of Trump in all things? Do they have a common set of solutions to present-day problems or at least a way of analyzing those solutions/problems?
Note: If you are going to just respond with snark, please don't. It won't advance the conversation and will divert attention from those who might take a stab at answering it.
I think it goes back well before Trump, and that there is not any uniformly-agreed-upon definition of "the Trump wing"
And IMO no - there is no "unifying political philosophy" for any of the multiple interest groups in either party.
IMO, Trump voters are made up of (none of this is based on polling):
GOP Buckley conservatives
GOP Goldwater conservatives
GOP Reagan conservatives
GOP Nixon/Bush moderates (what the above would have called "Rockefeller Republicans")
Former Democrats - Evangelicals who quietly voted Democrat for decades and came out of the churches in the 80's solely over the abortion issue to vote GOP
Former Democrats - Blue collar Union families who loudly voted Democrat for decades, and first trickled, then stormed into the GOP. They were first quiet Reagan supporters due to the Carter recession which destroyed them financially, and then both Reagan "standing up to/defeating the USSR after Carter got shoved around by Iran," and then the Reagan economy - which gave the ones left on the seniority lists a return of big union contracts (Detroit and the Sun Belt industrial America would have sold their families to get the unions back into the factories after the economy started cooking again), including big health care provisions, but who were eventually driven in large open numbers into Trump's arms by the Clinton/Obama folks ignoring them and then eventually favoring the most radical abortion positions and most radical social justice positions ("abortion as birth control" and then "what is a woman?").
(PS - All of the above sets include people whose support for the GOP was hardened further recently because they objected to being called racist solely because (1) they were OK with enforcing immigration laws already on the books, and/or (2) (even though they were happy to work with minorities and school with minorities and live with minorities and play/drink beer with minorities), they rejected (or feel threatened by?) the idea that they were born on third base and are only where they are because of white privilege. They work hard too. They didn't own slaves. "Don't blame me for slavery." Etc. These people watched The Great Society programs fail, and don't appreciate being blamed as the reason - GOP or Dem.)
A vast minority, but people who DO NOT object to being called racist - who revel in it. People who believe "whites are superior to blacks." (Sadly, the Dems have lumped all Trump voters into this category as a way of avoiding the good-will debate over many other issues.)
A small but growing number of "black religious right" folks, who want "the black family" back and see the Dems as ignoring them too, taking their votes for granted.
A small but growing number of Hispanics and other minorities - still convinced that America is the place they can work hard and get ahead.
There are other splits and groups, but this is enough to make the snark waterfall begin.
And I won't try and break down the groups who make up the Dems. My views would not be appreciated here.
