When you care more about the personality than party OR principles.

What these people do not or will not see is that, once in power, Trump will owe them and their party nothing. He will have ridden to power despite the party, catapulted into the White House by a mass following devoted only to him. By then that following will have grown dramatically. Today, less than 5 percent of eligible voters have voted for Trump. But if he wins the election, his legions will likely comprise a majority of the nation. Imagine the power he would wield then. In addition to all that comes from being the leader of a mass following, he would also have the immense powers of the American presidency at his command: the Justice Department, the FBI, the intelligence services, the military. Who would dare to oppose him then? Certainly not a Republican Party that lay down before him even when he was comparatively weak. And is a man like Trump, with infinitely greater power in his hands, likely to become more humble, more judicious, more generous, less vengeful than he is today, than he has been his whole life? Does vast power un-corrupt?

This is how fascism comes to America, not with jackboots and salutes (although there have been salutes, and a whiff of violence) but with a television huckster, a phony billionaire, a textbook egomaniac "tapping into" popular resentments and insecurities, and with an entire national political party — out of ambition or blind party loyalty, or simply out of fear — falling into line behind him.==============================

Progressive movement appears to laud many tendencies which resemble facism .... "safe zones", "appropriate speech" where contrasting views are not tolerated, the general concept that government should be the FIRST and last recourse to resolve any human condition which is deemed "unfair" or "unequal" ..... ostracizing people and ideas .... group think.  A usurpation of the authority cited by our Founding Fathers as the basis for our political & social experiment .... and the gradual erosion of liberty, individual responsibility, and those rights listed in the 1st-Amendment to our Constitution.