I think that most Trump supporters are actually good people, who want the best for their families and the country. They have, for the most part, validly arguable conservative views of which they are very protective, and there is certainly nothing inappropriate with having such a view.
To me, the problem that arises is that the President actually has few, if any, true core beliefs, and is inherently a performer who is extraordinarily adept at recognizing that for which audiences thirst, and has no inhibitions at promising that he has the capacity to, and is in fact currently delivering the same. His audacity at asserting he is delivering such, without regard for the truth of such is unparalleled in American political history.
He has the absolutely uncanny ability to read segments of the American public and use the ability for his benefit.
Where I feel the situation runs terribly askew, is that supporters so want his assertions to be accurate, honest and correct that they tend to simply accept them to be accurate, honest and correct, often despite actual indications to the contrary simply because he asserts that not only true, honest and correct but that they are so solely because of his input.
I really don't view the supporters as either bad people, for the most part, nor as enemies, but merely so focused on their world view as to how things should, in their opinion, ultimately be, that they generally decline to objectively examine their acceptance of him.
They aren't at all stupid, naive or resistant to good, rather they are so focused on the correctness (and they may be correct in many, many things) of their view and hopeful that the nation and world can achieve the goodness and prosperity they seek that they eschew the evidence that, at best, he is incompetent as President, and at worst, that he is a narcissistic grifter.
It seems to me to be a political reiteration of the televangelist Jim Bakker. Believers want to believe, not review alternative evidence.
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