It’s actually more sad than anything.
I, and perhaps you, expect more from conservative minded people. I expect people on the left and “low information voters” to get suckered by anti-intellectual populists. One hopes that my/our own side wouldn’t be so full of people that were equally gullible.
Sadly, it would appear that even learned people on both left and right are equally susceptible to this sort of cult of personality. Even if that personality has a clear record of opposing many of the things they supposedly care about.
bingo.
The problem is that all the high minded GOPe politicians have no clue why Trump is so popular and likely neither do you. We have hoped someone with a brain would figure it out but so far they haven't. You want to pick up Trump supporters then figure it out.