Most of his supporters I have talked with appear to have fastened on one or maybe two of these pearls and are either choose to ignore the vast mass (or is that mess?) of his stuff they would normally be appalled with or they are so focused on their issue they can ignore the other.
That focusing on the odd pearl in a politician's stated position fits nicely into what Tacit described when he talked about the
ways voters can act against their own interests. Quite frequently people seem to think along the lines of 'someone who can come up with this gem cannot possibly mean
that even when it sounds like it, so we happily ignore that'.
Combine that with the many topics that are beyond the scope or interest of many young (and not-so-young) voters, and once again political cherry picking pervades the land like the next flu epidemic. Few voters seem to care about the intellectual shortcuts that are being made, or, perhaps even more likely in the case of younger voters, just don't know how potentially dangerous those can be.
