My perspective is I can't truly blame people who'd vote for Trump over the Dem candidate in a general election, I can see how they'd consider him the least of two evils. But voting for Trump in a Republican primary... that's another story. Then you're just deliberately choosing the pile of crap instead of the various other options you have - or okay, I guess by now most Republican primary voters will only get one other option, but that's what they get for not having given the other campaigns oxygen before the voting started.

And yeah, if you claim to be an evangelical Christian but you're actually going to choose Trump over people who actually represent your ideals, like Tim Scott or Mike Pence, then I'm sorry but clearly God or Christian ideals are pretty far down your priority list, so don't expect me to take your 'faith' seriously anymore.

Exactly, DeSantis offered the same policies, with far more competence and only a regular politician level of ego and venality, as opposed to Trump's. Only real downside was he's stiff and bad at smalltalk - not much of a reason to vote against him, if you like the policies. I remember a discussion with Tom a year or two back when he was very confident DeSantis would dethrone Trump, which seemed plausible enough at the time. But no, as it turns out, they actually want the crassness, the egomania and the sheer not giving a fuck about the country or anything other than himself that Trump offers.

I can't disagree with you there - though probably the movement he's created will long survive him, one way or another.