One possible excuse is that Mr. Trump says what they want to say, but know that they can't say in public because of the adverse social reactions that saying it would cause.
Oh, he is their middle finger and exactly what they wanted way back in 2016. Beyond that, they have no expectations, which is why they have spent three years perfecting the art of apathy. They ignore, so that they can support. They are just too stupid to realize how this anti-conservative mind developed:
- Bush authorized the CIA to spy on American citizens through the Patriot Act and they gratefully surrendered their civil rights to support.
- The shallow NeoCon agenda to magically create democracy in the Middle East was a bust.
- Trickle-Down economics was proven a con game during the 2007-08 recession.
- Bush and the GOP used tax money to create bail-outs for private banks and corporations, thus exposing their delusions of a free market.
- Obama was never a Kenyan-born Muslim with terrorist sympathies.
- Global Warming is real, not a liberal hoax. Trump's attempt to later brand it a Chinese hoax should have insulted their intelligence. It didn't.
- They watched their GOP pathetically make a congressional argument about tomato paste in 2011, because they chose to politicize the idea of healthier school lunches for their fat-ass kids.
- "Lock her up" turned into Trump declaring that he wasn't interested after he was elected.
- "Drain the swamp" turned into Trump filling his Cabinet with career lobbyists and Wall Street insiders that helped write the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act, which freed Big Business from paying taxes.
- They cheered for Trump as he denigrated an American POW of a Vietnam war that he was too cowardly to attend. They ignore his ongoing and persistent denigration of the military.
- Trump's walking away from the Iran deal and then handing Syria over to Iranian and Russian influence were and are both long-term threats to Israel.
- Trump clearly used a private lawyer to try to enlist the aid of a foreign government to help him with re-election by interfering in American democracy; and they encouraged their GOP to applaud.
- After supporting Trump for his months of complacency, they now support Trump's $2 trillion dollar program of socialism to help the needy....and corporations.
- Reagan, Bush, and Trump are infamous for vastly increasing debt, deficit, and expanding government, which is supposed to be a no-no within conservatism.
On, and on, and on. One by one, all of their shallow and cracked ideologies, as well as what they once thought of themselves, proved false. Their support for a free market was BS. Their support for the troop is BS and clearly based on political convenience. Their support for Israel is BS. Their anti-science position is embarrassing. Their need to ignore Trump's clear exploitation of their irrationality in 2016 was an immediate smack to their faces. All they have is Trump's middle finger, irrationality, and ignorance to cling to. This is why they thrive on the idea of conspiracies, the idea of fake news, the idea of a deep state, and anything else that helps them feel like victims of somebody else's making. You see, it's not them and their radicalism that have long been so very wrong about so many things. It's the world for daring to be right and leaving them exposed as frauds. Now they flip-flop all over the place trying desperately to keep up with their ego-driven leader as he Tweets his way through his presidency.