Comment by epistasis

First, you're making a big logical error by replacing "voters" with "Republican voters" or the even more narrow, extreme, and unrepresentative group of "Republican primary voters".

If people knew they were voting for Project 2025, why would Trump disavow any connection to it during the campaign? It doesn't make any sense.

> Republican voters still overwhelmingly prefer this to the alternative (Democrats), and polls show this today.

Republican voters care less about policy than about the team. Take key Democratic policies, and present them in polls without the Democratic label, and Republicans support them. Add in the label and they don't support them.

It's not hard to understand that politics is mostly treated as sports-team affiliation these days.

Republicans don't vote for Republicans because of policies, they vote for Republicans because they identify as Republicans.

And, claiming that the Massie vote, of just the extreme primary voters, represents the public's will? That's ridiculous. Massie still got something like 45% of the vote, among that extreme and unrepresentative bloc of voters, after Trump going hard after Massie for trying to release the Epstein files.

The Massie vote is about extremist Republican's subservience to Trump, not about whether anybody actually likes policies. People despise Trump's Epstein coverup.