President Trump's support base is not going to erode anytime soon.

While the media fulminated over Donald Trump Jr.'s reported meeting with then campaign manager Paul Manafort and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and a Russian-connected lawyer in June 2016,

and while they mocked President Trump's overtures to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin,

they largely ignored the importance of one image and one image only for Trump's followers.

The image came on Saturday when President Trump approached Marine 1 at the Andrews Air Force Base. A strong wind had knocked the hat off the head of a Marine standing closest to the staircase onto the helicopter. Because the Marine could not move, he was standing at attention, Trump retrieved the hat and put it back on the Marine's head. The hat blew off again. And again, Trump went, retrieved the hat. This may have seemed like a big nothing to the left, but it means a lot to people on the right who feel the Obama White House routinely ignored the dignity of our troops. President Obama bragged openly about using troops as a photo op. He forced a Marine to hold an umbrella over him as he gave a statement in the rain outside the White House. He plans and friendly troops at pre-screened events. And of course, Obama's Veterans Affairs administration was a full-scale disaster.

In the same weekend, Trump helped this Marine with his hat, we found out that 500 VA officials had

been fired by the Trump administration for malfeasance. And herein lies the point. Because our politics

have become so little about policy and so much about intent,

Trump's most ardent supporters are never going to abandon him. Whether they believe that he's actually

making America great again, they think he wants to make America great again, and they think

Obama didn't want to make America great again. In that assessment, they're 100% correct. But that

also means that the media's attempts to play Trump as a nefarious Russian

stooge manipulating the system to his own benefit, that's going to fall on deaf ears.

Trump is seen by his supporters as a reaction to the America last attitude of his predecessors.

Supporters are not going to believe that Trump's America first attitude is secretly Trump first.

Video like the Marine One tape reinforced that Trump's support

is that it believes that stuff. So long as Trump continues to demonstrate his obvious reverence

for American symbols, it will be very, very difficult for the left to carve into his base.

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