The answer to why Trump's base is still clinging to him is because they have nowhere else to go. For them, this is Custer's Last Stand and they are surrounded by Indians.
Republicans painted themselves into this corner and hastened their doom with the election of Donald Trump. Trump has exposed them in ways that republicans have tried to keep hidden. He has exposed their gross disdain for women .. in the year of rising woman issues and demands. He has even exposed their love and support for a known pedophile.
He has exposed their gross racism and hate of non-white people .. all of them. Republicans were never far from a racist identity, given the make-up of their virtual all-white party, but Trump leaves no doubt about it.
Thus, by their own design,
they cannot grow as a party Large majorities on non-whites hate republicans and want nothing to do with them, and much of their base is already old.
Data shows a downward demographic spiral for Republicans
Lost on the party during this, however, would seem to be that they are statistically experiencing the ultimate political “dead cat bounce.”
The term comes from stock markets and refers to a sequence of events where a stock sees a temporary and brief recovery after a severe and prolonged decline, followed by a return to that same decline. The short recovery was really just a mirage as the underlying problems still exist, returning the stock to its initial, inertial free fall.
The key to understanding this phenomenon for the Republican Party is to look at changing U.S. demographics.
Minorities increasingly comprise larger shares of the U.S. population, with Hispanics and African-Americans currently making up 17.6 percent and 13.3 percent of the population, respectively. When accounting for all minorities in the U.S., whites now make up just 61.6 percent of the population.
And that last percentage is shrinking. The U.S. Census Bureau now estimates that by 2044, no race or ethnicity in the U.S. will represent a majority of the population… and that includes whites. This sort of rapidity of a country’s population composition changing seems to be unprecedented.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/11/data-shows-a-downward-demographic-spiral-for-republicans/
Grand Old People Party
Republicans are old and getting older. That’s a huge problem for the GOP
As of the end of last year, the primetime median age of Fox News viewers was 68.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_..._getting_older_that_s_a_huge_problem_for.html
Consider this .. the majority of white voters in 2016 elected Trump .. and Hillary Clinton still got 3 million more voters then Trump did.
Trump and republicans are only digging the holes deeper. Instead of reaching out to all Americans, they're just too damn busy digging their own graves.
I suspect the Republican Party will be replaced by the Libertarian Party .. while republicans morph into the Whigs.
