Beyond the ride-or-die MAGA chuds (who simply want to "own the libs"), there are a lot of Republicans who have this attitude of "I may not like that Trump does X, but at least he's doing Y, and he's not a Democrat." They will ignore or explain away or tolerate all the terrible, braindead things he does, his long list of failures and broken promises, as long as he cuts taxes/regulations and tries to stop abortions/immigration. And for some,
the cruelty is the point. They're fine as long as he's
hurting the right people.