And yes, the Lewinsky affair in itself was a scandal and self-inflicted wound that let the right lend the air of legitimacy to all of their other accusations.

 Ronald Reagan is instructive in that he rarely, if ever, went to any Church.  His championship of family values was not rooted in a demonstration of the values of his own family, with visits to the White House more frequent by Gorbachev than some of his children and grandchildren.

 And,  the twice divorced, thrice married Trump,  says he never asks God for forgiveness of his sins because he never does anything wrong, and seems unfamiliar with the Bible, at least the 2 Corinthians, is given more leeway  than Trump Tower needs in a windstorm.  Whatever standards there are, they are elastic or overlooked--for the possibility of a political friend in the White House.

They feel that one fact alone is responsible for, virtually, all our problems, from the criminal wealth/income inequality, to the huge negative poll numbers, "right track/wrong track."

Secondly, Christianity is seen as being under attack by the Left and "secularism." Trump is seen as the person who will roll back the advances of its enemies. Trump is seen as a defender of the faith who will block immigration by Muslims and will attack them overseas.

Thirdly, a large number of supporters are Scot-Irish, a group that provided a large number of settlers in the Southeast and in the Virginia's. These people were, and are, well known to be clannish and they see the huge numbers of immigrants of any stripe as enemies. Trump promises to shut the door.

Finally, jobs that moved them off the owner's land and into the middle class came late to them. They have viewed with their own eyes factories opening in their home towns and then leaving in 20 years or so to move to Mexico, China or somewhere else. Trump pledges to bring the jobs home.

Trump appeals to all of these.

Plus, to a larger or smaller degree, they have heard Republicans politicians promise to "fix" things. They see that the "insiders" haven't fixed them and that the relationships the elites of both parties enjoy are mutually advantageous. This is very visible.

You should remember that it was the "visibility of things" brought by TV in the 50's to  all blacks, but particularly in the South, that helped launch the civil rights movement. As the song said, it is hard to keep'em down on the farm when they have seen gay Paree.

Finally these are pragmatic people. Being poor teaches you how to make do. How to do without. They have heard hundreds of what they think of as completely stupid remarks from many sources, but especially media, politicians and educators. This has led to a complete and utter disgust with these people as a group. They don't care if Trump says nasty things about these. In dact, they enjoy it.

Someone finally gets it. It is illegal to send classified information via e mail. PERIOD.

So, what I do not understand is the Clinton camp pushing out a defense that nothing on her server was MARKED CLASSIFIED. Nothing in a e mail would ever be marked classified, because then, the sender , and receiver ,would both immediately know that laws were broken. So I truly do not understand why saying this construes any sort of defense. Only a moron would send classified information in a e mail, and then mark it classified.
Now, from what I understand, and have been able to piece together, is that Madame Sec never used the special rooms assigned to read and send classified cables and information. She would have either read the information to her or...have them e mail to her. From what I hear, it was mostly Mills, Abedin and Sullivan who forwarded the higher classified information to her

But in one email exchange between Clinton and staffer Jake Sullivan from June 17, 2011, the then-secretary advised her aide on sending a set of talking points by email when he had trouble sending them through secure means.

Part of the exchange is redacted, so the context of the emails is unknown, but at one point, Sullivan tells Clinton that aides "say they've had issues sending secure fax. They're working on it."

It's unclear whether the talking points themselves contained classified information. Typically, talking points are used for unclassified purposes (e.g. speaking with the media). But in some cases, the material contained in such memos may still be sensitive -- especially if the report originates from intelligence agencies.

Now someone who went to the steps of using a private server and personal e mail address  at her residence for State Department communications....well, it is not a stretch to see her telling her senior staff to print out the classified cable, and place the contents in a e mail to her, sort of exactly what was described in one of her e mails to Sullivan.

I believe that this is the track the FBI is following up on ( in addition to State Department actions and Clinton Foundation donations), and that would place Abedin, Mills and Sullivan in extremely hot water. And their boss, because they would not have taken these actions independent of her.

Regardless, I believe all of this will come out shortly, one way or the other.

What is striking is the State Department stopping the court ordered hand over of Clinton e mails, until after South Carolina and New Hampshire primaries. They were ordered to complete that task by the end of Jan 2016, but it appears the dog ate the homework, and a blizzard, and well, the balance of the mails, many most likely again at the higher classification level, (they are being sent to multiple agencies for review) will be returned per the FOIA request late.