Many of those people are gullible enough to believe the "rigged election" mythology, or pretty much anything Trump says.
But others are not stupid. They have the mental capacity to recognize that Trump is a malignant narcissist who preemptively delegitimizes any contest who loses; who imbibed the Roy Cohn philosophy of "Always claim victo…
Many of those people are gullible enough to believe the "rigged election" mythology, or pretty much anything Trump says.
But others are not stupid. They have the mental capacity to recognize that Trump is a malignant narcissist who preemptively delegitimizes any contest who loses; who imbibed the Roy Cohn philosophy of "Always claim victory, never admit defeat; attack, attack, attack "; who claims that whatever does not go his way is unfair and "corrupt." Those people CHOOSE to defend and endorse him nonetheless, because they see him as a useful weapon against their ideological enemies - regardless of how much damage he does to American institutions, which they have come to label as "corrupt" anyway.
Many of those people are gullible enough to believe the "rigged election" mythology, or pretty much anything Trump says.
But others are not stupid. They have the mental capacity to recognize that Trump is a malignant narcissist who preemptively delegitimizes any contest who loses; who imbibed the Roy Cohn philosophy of "Always claim victory, never admit defeat; attack, attack, attack "; who claims that whatever does not go his way is unfair and "corrupt." Those people CHOOSE to defend and endorse him nonetheless, because they see him as a useful weapon against their ideological enemies - regardless of how much damage he does to American institutions, which they have come to label as "corrupt" anyway.