&gt; you assume [conservative] people are necessarily 90 IQ rednecks.<p>I don&#x27;t; I assume that the &quot;90 IQ redneck&quot; subset of conservative voters are the ones worth trying to seduce, according to GOP candidates. Because that&#x27;s whom their political speeches and positions seem targeted towards.<p>I guess that&#x27;s because there are many of them, and until recently they&#x27;ve been easier to influence. I must admit there&#x27;s a bit of shadenfreude in seeing Trump out-rednecking the GOP elite at the game they invented for themselves.