It's easy to take extreme positions on issues that likely won't bother your base no matter how they turn out. It's like international immigration: a life-or-de

It's easy to take extreme positions on issues that likely won't bother your base no matter how they turn out. It's like international immigration: a life-or-death matter to some, but a distant matter to a vast majority. If a politician doesn't follow through with promises or bungles the execution, these matters won't cause enough of his base to turn on him. But his stances gives followers a clear flag to wave.