Trump isn’t either, not on everything, and his nominees are all over the field of center & right-wing values.

I suspect that they are literal centrists or classical liberals (which IMO is what many Republicans are) who just can’t abide the far left, and are willing to go along with the candidate whose team is closer to their values.

“We are the Big Tent now.”
Someone who agrees with you on (say) 50% of your policies is better to have on your side than voting with the other team.

Maybe their conversion to working with Republicans will last, and hopefully their retention of center-left priorities won’t pull the GOP too much further left (it’s already gone some ways that direction, mostly because of the allure of Deep State power and perks).

Let’s see how things play out over the next four years.

AesopFan:

I understand that at many Trump rallies the audience was asked how many were Democrats.

A substantial number raised their hands. And they were all given a big hand.

We are the Big Tent now.

–so we did it.

This election epitomized the old maxim: A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.
Updated to “A Trump voter is anyone who has been mugged by reality.”

Except that a lot of the cross-over voters haven’t become conservatives, they just don’t want to keep living under Leftist rule.
Maybe that will change if they keep focused on what Trump does rather than on what the Democrat media says.

But this time, it was in our face; grocery prices, trans jocks running over our daughters, girls holding it in school so as to avoid the restrooms, a brother passed over for promotion or a kid for a scholarship due to racial issues. The guy who beat up a woman downtown earlier this week had been arrested for the same thing last week. And it was the wife of a colleague at work.

This time it was in our face and it was, “What are you going to do about it, huh?”

Things are different. That ain’t forever neither. But for now the wind’s at our back.

Pray that our leaders — so many ex-Democrats BTW, including Trump himself — can make the most of it.

Fear not, Kate. If “none of the predicted assaults on them are happening,” lefties will eagerly invent and then plant narratives to fill the erstwhile vacuum.

They’re collecting their thoughts and are eagerly anticipating their next thrust at the incoming administration. Those people may or may not be tired, but they *never* sleep.