Thanks for your courteous reply. Actually the MSN do not report the size of Trump’s crowds. They won’t even turn the cameras around to show them. The crowds are reported by the local police, the event people, bloggers with cameras and independent news outlets. The MSN is desperate to convince us that Trump is unpopular; they want to stop him at any cost because he will upset the apple cart.
I would need to check on the George Wallace stats to put that info into perspective. Did he have several rallies/weekly in 30+ states where a small rally was 6K and a large was 15-30K people?
George Wallace observation is completely anecdotal. But drew big crowds in Houston circa 1968.
To my mind Trump support is based mainly on anger and hope; the former of which I have much, the latter of which I have little as politics has no capacity to find a lost culture.