Is Trump Just an Ordinary Republican Now?

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The former President’s rhetoric during his recent trip to Iowa wasn’t any tamer, but he no longer sounds distinct from his G.O.P. rivals.

—are now working to end his political career. The Republican governor of New Hampshire, Chris Sununu, recently pronounced Trump “too dumb to be a danger to democracy.” But, in a way that would have been unimaginable when he descended the golden escalator at Trump Tower in 2015, the former President has rank-and-file Republicans—the people who set out the placemats at county Party luncheons and serve as poll watchers during off-year elections—firmly on his side.

The reason that Trump events have such weight, for me and for other political reporters, is that his 2016 rallies were the darkest political events many of us had ever witnessed and, I hope, will ever witness again.

. Across the street, a half-dozen demonstrators chanted slogans , but the Trump fans waiting to go inside mostly just ignored them. A man in ahat, eyeing my sports coat and laptop bag, asked whether I was a journalist. I said yes and tensed slightly for a confrontation, but he just nodded amiably and pointed out a guy who was selling ponchos, in case I needed one to stay dry while conducting interviews.

Politically, Dubuque is arguably purple territory , and Julie Hansel, who has volunteered as a poll worker, told me that she had been completely surprised on caucus day 2016 by just how many people were lining up for Trump. But, in our conversation, the Hansels seemed basically aligned with the former President, and ready to see his fights as theirs. Julie thought that the more Democrats pushed criminal cases against Trump, the more they were.

 

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