Many sane people are baffled by the veneration of the Trump cultists for such a repulsive, worthless excuse for a human being. I'm going to say what we aren't supposed to say. The answer is obvious: the characteristics of the Orange Shitpile that are most loathsome are exactly what they like about him. He gives not just permission, but affirmation, to the base impulses of people who aren't very smart and whose basic nature is selfishness, continual anger, and hatred.
People who are ignorant, lack critical thinking skills, and whose minds are boxed in by prejudice and bigotry can't win arguments with facts and logic, but now they have permission to win by bullying, threats of violence, and mindless taunts unworthy of a four year old. The hatred in their hearts is amplified and then endorsed. They are not just affirmed, but elevated, for their mindless resentments and false beliefs. The problem is not Trump, but that disturbingly large segment of the population that actually feels empowered and ennobled by his narcissism and psychopathy. That's what they actually like about him.
What I don't really get is why nearly all Republican politicians are buying into the scam. The people he most enjoys humiliating and screwing over are precisely the people who are most sycophantic. What did Mike Pence get out of being VP? What has happened to his butt kissing lawyers? What does Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham have to show for shoving their noses into his diaper? Where is the Red Wave of 2022? They could have rid themselves of him for good in 2020 by voting to convict on impeachment. What did they think they were gaining by not doing what was obviously right?
I will say that fortunately, it is getting to the point where even the New York Times, as hard as they are trying, can't ignore his rapidly progressing dementia. That he spews word salad and confuses Nancy Pelosi with Nicki Haley and Joe Biden with Barack Obama doesn't matter to his cultists -- they aren't actually paying attention to anything he is literally saying, it's just about the affect and the schoolyard insults for them. But the aphasia is getting to the point where he's just completely unpresentable in public. What will Mitch McConnell and Maggie Haberman do then?
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Well, Mitch McConnell is right up there with the Dumpster in terms of mental handicap. In addition, he looks physically so weak he could be blown over with a stiff breeze.
Our parents, who had more critical thinking skills than many today and also had only four TV stations to choose from, would roll in their graves to see such ignorance and idiocy. Late capitalism is turning so many brains to malleable mush in its desperation to commoditize the entire populace. That's why Jamie Dimon and others toe the line. All they're thinking about is money. Not survival of the species, the planet or just decency ...
Fear of the MAGAshirts.
Fear of being kicked out of the club.
Cognitive dissonance: The more shit you have to accept, the more you have to believe that you did it because it is True and Worth It.
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