... the puerile, base, ignorant level at which many DUP supporters and leaders operate. They make Trump look smart.

The DUP supporters are the same ethnic group absolutely controlling Greater Appalachia and are the majority or near majority in the Deep South.  Politically that gives them 30 seats in the Senate and (guessing) 120 seats in the House making them the most powerful bloc in the Federal government.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre