When you push the "they're out to get you" platform long enough, eventually it turns on you, too.
In part that helps explain why Gingrich — former Speaker of the House — is doing so well in the polls: because the GOP establishment doesn't like him and keep trying to write him off, and therefore he's attractive to all the TPers out there who have been trained to … mistrust the establishment. #ddtb
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Mistrust of Institutions May Touch G.O.P. Itself
Republicans have become less trusting of political and societal institutions, which could lead to difficulty lining up voters behind whomever the party establishment wants to run for president.
