The former Philanderer-in-Thief isn't what baffles me.
Let's face it, Trump is who he is and is who he has always been. I'll credit him with not even pretending to be someone he is not. He has been the same piece of crap he has always been and will most certainly go to his grave being the same piece of crap he was raised to be. A narcissistic sociopath convinced of his own victimhood anytime he is caught red-handed on tape with photos and a signed affidavit confessing his crimes. He is so obviously corrupt and observably stupid and yet somehow completely shameless like most sociopaths. You and I get this, however...
There is a sizable portion of this country, I'll say about 30 percent-ish, that can't seem to see anything wrong with this openly criminal buffoon and support him as if he is the second coming. I get Donald Trump. People like Trump can be found at the edges of decency and integrity but never in the mix of either moral congregate because he wouldn't know how to display decency or act with integrity.
All I can wonder is how so many are so broken and oblivious to all of his failings and basic evil tendencies that they see only a leader when they look at him? I know how cults work. I've just never seen one on this scale before. His base is Evangelicals, red-necks, white nationalists, ex-military fanatics, law enforcement racists, and every other type of bottom feeder this country has produced.
What do these people hope to achieve from their support of this lying sack of crap? What could they possibly think this maniac will do for them? Again, I understand the sick puppy that is Trump but where have his supporters brains gone?
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By Edward Lempinen 4-7-2022
After nearly four weeks of watching CNN in September 2020, the Fox News regulars remained firmly conservative. Still, the study found, they were more supportive of voting by mail, less likely to believe that Democratic candidate Joe Biden wanted to eliminate all police funding, and had less positive evaluations of then-President Donald Trump and other Republican politicians.
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The effect, however, was short-lived. Two months after the study period ended, most of the participants had abandoned CNN, and the changes in their opinions had faded away, said the study by political scientists David E. Broockman at UC Berkeley and Joshua L. Kalla, who received his Ph.D. at Berkeley and is now on the faculty at Yale University.
In an interview, Broockman said that the increasing influence of partisan media, such as Fox, CNN and MSNBC, raises concerns about the nation’s political health.
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This study gives me some hope, but not much.
