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You're confusing rich Republicans who benefit from Trump, and the poor/middle class who get absolutely nothing but racisim and Christianity.
The super wealthy bankroll everything and get all the rewards + power.
But the votes that put him in office are 95% from people who will be hurt by deregulation, crushed by increased taxes (that pay for the racisim and forced Christianity), and want the freedom to openly hate anything they don't like (which they believe was woked away from them).
The idiots who will be crushed by Trump the hardest are his biggest fans.
And you're confusing "the base" with people whom the Fox News and rich people apparatus more generally don't have any control over.
The federalist society and other "think tanks" decide the actual agenda. Trump is just the talking head at the center of it. When he's dead and buried it's not like they're going to start advising people to vote for Democrats.
The reason none of these (sometimes very serious) things sink him is because the media constantly gives him a pass on all of it.
He's their mascot. He's shown himself to be friendly enough to corporate interests that he's allowed to continue being that mascot. They still need one that's at least popular enough to enliven some of the dead as disco voter demographics they need to get into office and obtain power.
Once he's elected again their plan is to "fix it so good" that nobody will have to ask for votes anymore, because at least what they want (and they might get it) is to be able to disenfranchise, cheat, and abuse their way to victory and extinguish democracy altogether.
Look at the states they govern, for example, North Carolina is already considered "not a democracy" by some international watchgroups because of the gerrymandering and other tactics used to control the outcome of elections there. They want to go national with that.