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This process started years ago with Rush Limbaugh. He provided alternative news and spent years disconnecting people from “mainstream media”. Now many only listen to right wing news that is disinformation. Not sure how we come back from a party that embraces the destruction of democracy and authoritarian leaders.
I think Trump has been such an emotional white knight in shining armor for them, that they don't actually believe he could be a risk to democracy, national security, or the global world order that has American military power as the basis of its stability.
He gives his supporters, humor, a safe space, a big smile, and unflinchingly accepts their moral short comings... So they do the same for him in return.
Except he has more disdain for his supporters than anyone else, even the "radical left" that he puts on a show about disliking. But his cult are the ones he lies to, grifts away all their money on a deluge of just garbage with his "brand" on it, and just thinks they are the dumbest and most useless people. He has made comments about them not having lives and being unstable.
Source: Trump calls his supporters ‘basement dwellers’, says former press secretary
That's correct. It is irrational. But he did give them permission to be bigoted in public, and they really like that.
Except that regularly calls many of them garbage and they seem to like that kinda thing.
He's got plenty of credit with them to burn, and if he burns it right, they like him more.
Like when people have plastered their vehicles with your name, and they follow you from place to place in convoys flying flags like something out of a mad max movie? You can call them whatever you want and get a way with it a bunch of times without any consequences what so ever.
It’s like burning plastic. It’s toxic garbage destroying their lungs but somehow addicting