Why Major Dissident Figures Now Back Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Before dropping out of the race, he asked to speak with Trump and Harris.
46% : Trump is flawed, and that's being generous.
45% : Many conventional Democrats today will tell you that they see him as a right-winger, even before he aligned with Trump.
45% : Trump, Kennedy and Ramaswamy all even spoke at the 2024 Libertarian National Convention.
44% : If the Republican establishment's presidential game plan was once to run George W. Bush-style candidates for eternity, as John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012 certainly seemed to indicate, Trump demolished that business model in 2016, blasting the Iraq war that had become so central to Republican identity -- something would-be frontrunner Jeb Bush himself had to endure.
44% : After endorsing Trump in late August, she said, "I believe his first task will be to walk us back from the brink of war," referring to the tense, U.S.-fueled conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
40% : Before her endorsement of Trump, it was reported that Gabbard had been put on a TSA watchlist.
37% : What these figures represent under the rubric of Trump is not undying loyalty to the man, and most of them have been clear on that front.
34% : You don't have to like or agree with everything he has said or done to recognize that since the moment he descended down that escalator nearly a decade ago, Trump has completely turned American politics on its head.
20% : And on those issues and others, that he said he discussed with Trump and said that they agree, Kennedy now takes a stance with Trump against an establishment that wants nothing to do with him and his traditional liberalism.
19% : In his endorsement, Kennedy said he may even "furiously" disagree with Trump publicly during the span of this election.
17% : Trump abused his power, too, while in office.
14% : Other left dissidents in this election like the Green Party's Jill Stein and the independent candidate Cornel West are not endorsing Trump, but do have sympathy with Kennedy and Gabbard in their critiques of the current regime.

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