@mhoye

Any time a pundit attributes political support to "craziness" I have to send them back to their mom.

It's like a bucket that terrible analysts use to avoid analysis that threatens their ideological commitments.

It also assumes a couple things that are simply not true of US politics:

1) That we have an affirmative electoral system, e.g. people vote for candidates they agree with

2) That we have a universal standard for communicating policy goals across the entire population