While I've been critical of the prevailing Trump/Russia narrative, it should be noted that conservatives/Republicans advanced endless narratives about Obama that were probably even less grounded in reality. Kenyan anti-colonial socialistic traitor with no birth certificate, etc.
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The GOP establishment kept a distance from Trump because they thought he would lose. Once he started winning,they joined.
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At that point they had to join, at least on some level, or risk completely losing control of the future direction of the party. The main point is this was a process that played out day-to-day. It was messy and far from any establishment "by-the-books" on how to win a Presidency
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birtherism was "fringe" among the republican opinionmaking class, but not among actual republican voters.
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