constant escape
winter withered, warm
The flipside of this is that a lot of white conservatives in the USA see no distinction between liberalism, socialism and even Marxism, so the spectacle of corporations falling over themselves to appear woke (be it ever so tokenistic or even hypocritical - a fast food chain that disproportionately employs black workers at minimum wage and in shitty conditions tweeting in support of BLM, let's say) is feeding into a general discontent with corporations and with capitalism generally, which under other circumstances would be leading people towards the left.
Do you think this might be a generational thing? And that a sizable portion of younger white would-be conservatives actually were persuaded by Sanders - maybe purely out of dissatisfaction with Trump?
And the right-wing populists are extremely adept at taking advantage of this, which is why you have a billionaire property baron for a president who, without a trace of irony, constantly rails against "the elite".
Don't want to prematurely dot my I's and cross my T's, but it seems Trump is clinging to an increasingly narrowing and cultlike base, hence his refusal to concede even the mildest of concessions (like his refusal, from what I gather, to denounce QAnon?). That is, the press, generally (from what little I've seen), seem to be lobbing him these opportunities at petty repentance, and he is refraining from hitting, because doing so would entail alienating the naked nucleus of enthusiastic backers he has left (the cortex of moderate supports seems to have been largely stripped away).