He was riding the wave of an online movement he didn’t understand but thought was entirely about him. It coalesced around him but wasn’t about him and now the movement is starting to realize it as they get frustrated with Trump being Trump.

Just wait until it sinks in that he was conning them out of their money and was perfectly willing to sacrifice any or all of them at all points of this journey. Hell, I wouldn’t at all be surprised if he was as disgusted by them as the left was, just for different reasons, and saw sacrificing them as a win/win.