Originally Posted by
sonatine
Sarah Palin, of all people, is spelling out how Trump might have allowed Breitbart to essentially tear the wheels off the train by softening his immigration stance;
‘If Mr. Trump were to go down a path of wishy-washy positions taken on things that the core foundation of his support has so appreciated, and that is respecting our Constitution and respecting law and order in America, then yeah, there would be massive disappointment. Parts of that message we heard in the last week are clearly not consistent with the stringent position and message that supporters have received all along.’
‘The focus needs to be not on whether an illegal immigrant is a good person or a bad person but how sustainable it is to incentivize illegal immigrants to come over our borders.
‘What we appreciate about Trump is that he hasn’t been a politician, and I would hope the people around him are not influencing him to be a typical politician. As in all campaigns and administrations, you have people who try to mold and meld and massage that candidate or that administrator to become something that they want, as opposed to what is in the core of that candidate or that administrator. That’s why the candidate or administrator has to have a backbone of steel.
Bolded portion is outrageously cogent here. The reason America's most ignorant White flunky bigots got on the train is because Trump is not a politician. By providing Trump a more palatable, realistic policy narrative, Breitbart has pretty much started to alienate his core support in an effort to capture the center of the field.
Obviously this is laughable because the closer to the center you get, the better educated and informed the audience becomes. And no matter what Trump says, none of those essential center votes are going to magically forget who and what Trump is, or what he's said and done.
TL;DR when Sarah Palin said you just shot holes in the bottom of your political boat then fucked them with a flaming chainsaw, you should assume its an understatement.