Cheryl Sharp, a 47-year-old sales associate who was among the many Iowans turned away from a filled-to-capacity Trump rally last month, sounded pretty confident she knew why Donald Trump was so appealing to many voters. “You want someone strong, globally, so that it creates mutual respect with other countries, and maybe a little bit of fear,” she told me. Being strong is better.” Sharp readily conceded that not everything Trump said was great, but she saw that as part of the right personality to be president. “You gotta be a little crazy, maybe, to make sure other countries respect and fear us,” she said. “He commands respect and fear around the world,” Scott Bobbitt told me.

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