At some point we’re going to need to figure out why millions of Americans readily believe every objectively untrue word that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth. Saying that they’re brainwashed or in a cult isn’t the answer.
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They are ignorant and choose to remain ignorant. They believe this guy will stand up for them and exact revenge on their perceived enemies.They enjoy the chaos and mayhem because it gives them a shot of adrenaline in their boring lives.They consider him the guy who gets them.The others don't.
aug 12, 2025, 1:33 am • 10 0 • view
“Willfull ignorance” is the phrase my husband uses; MAGA revels in it, disdaining all expertise, objective truth and honesty.
aug 12, 2025, 1:46 am • 11 0 • view
The answer is white supremacy, as it so often is in America.
aug 12, 2025, 1:23 am • 28 2 • view
how about they are just dumb?
aug 12, 2025, 1:32 am • 1 0 • view
Andrew, if you’re baiting, I’m taking the bait. The correct answer is racism.
aug 12, 2025, 1:25 am • 27 2 • view
Add in some religion and misogyny too, but mainly racism.
aug 12, 2025, 1:28 am • 22 1 • view
Capitalism. Hate is profitable.
aug 12, 2025, 3:32 am • 4 0 • view
And homophobia but I think racism is #1 for them
aug 12, 2025, 5:39 pm • 1 0 • view
General bigotry might capture it. Especially for wealthy people. The uber rich actually don’t want more money. They want the ability to not be criticized for what they say and do. The moderately rich want tax and regulations cut…and to be bigoted without consequences.
aug 12, 2025, 3:09 am • 0 0 • view
What is the answer? Brain dead? It takes seconds for a person with intelligence to figure that Donald Trump is a valueless narcissistic sociopath. We knew this even before his first mandate. We got confirmation during his first mandate and these millions of Americans elected him again. Brain dead?
aug 12, 2025, 1:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Do "ignorant" (mostly willful) and/or "racist" work as answers?
aug 12, 2025, 1:27 am • 1 0 • view
Racism is a hella drug.
aug 12, 2025, 1:25 am • 21 1 • view
Exactly. Some of these people are otherwise intelligent.
aug 12, 2025, 1:26 am • 1 0 • view
They’re morons?
aug 12, 2025, 1:25 am • 11 0 • view
* Is a Mass Psychosis the Greatest Threat to Humanity? * www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojPc...
aug 12, 2025, 1:26 am • 0 0 • view
* David Koresh, Jim Jones, Marshall Applewhite, etc.. is a motif cult psychic epidemic. * Is a Mass Psychosis the Greatest Threat to Humanity? *
aug 12, 2025, 1:29 am • 2 0 • view
Trump is saying what they want to believe.
aug 12, 2025, 2:18 am • 2 0 • view
They have the iq of a bag of hammers.
aug 12, 2025, 1:41 am • 1 0 • view
Except, it is. They are literally fucking brainwashed.
aug 12, 2025, 2:28 am • 0 0 • view
Because it’s what they Want to believe.
aug 12, 2025, 11:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Because they want to believe it. It's what Nixon and Reagan told them. It's what Rush, Imus, Tucker, Hannity, and the others told them. So to them, it isn't just Trump saying it. It also happens to fit nicely with the narrative their own parents sold them as children. It's systemic.
aug 12, 2025, 1:29 am • 21 0 • view
They understand his words. He speaks like they do. They are also not the brightest bulbs. Think of the normal bell curve: percentage of people with IQs of 79 or below.
aug 12, 2025, 1:27 am • 2 0 • view
Fear, racism, and poverty. He said he would get rid of immigrants taking their jobs. He said no more equality (DEI). Trifecta. He said he would raise wages, let them keep tips, tax relief. He spoke to their biggest fears. He did not tell them he was going to take away their kids’ lunches.
aug 12, 2025, 10:26 am • 1 0 • view
I have a Doctorate in Rhetorical Theory and Argumentation. This is your reason. Add in poverty, the desperation that leads to drug use, and Citizens United. The decline of support for, and abuse of teachers finishes off literacy. Solution: Raise the bottom to a living wage & let teachers teach.
aug 15, 2025, 1:08 am • 0 0 • view
aug 12, 2025, 1:51 am • 2 0 • view
1.Because they want to/racism, selfishness,and believing they’re at top of human strata 2.Disinformation that supports the lies they want to believe 3.Religion is their cover and society supports it because religion HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT CONTROL, POWER AND POLITICS Not necessarily in that order
aug 12, 2025, 2:03 am • 9 0 • view
And grifting. Don't for get the grifting. I have an Uncle that's a southern baptist preacher and life long grifter. His daughter is my brainwashed cousin. I called her out for supporting trump and we don't speak anymore.
aug 12, 2025, 2:08 am • 3 0 • view
I think some are but most are not doing the actual grifting
aug 12, 2025, 2:58 am • 0 0 • view
Lack of education plays a major role here.
aug 12, 2025, 11:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I think it’s a nefarious reason. There can be no other answer to their hate
aug 12, 2025, 1:34 am • 2 0 • view
The Trump supporters around me have become very quiet. Trump's polls are not good. The building and real estate industries are hurting. This trickles down to plant growers and the landscaping businesses. They are hurting for lack of employees since ICE is here. I'm in Jacksonville
aug 12, 2025, 3:00 am • 3 0 • view
Honestly, IMO, they see themselves! Not everything but just “something” that’s all they need. Nothing else resonates.
aug 12, 2025, 3:01 am • 0 0 • view
Belief relieves them of the enormous cognitive dissonance created by knowing what they are doing is wrong, and giving into their worst instincts, and doing it anyway. To start, if they didn’t slurp up the slurry of lies, they’d have to admit they abandoned their Christian values to elect a rapist.
aug 12, 2025, 1:40 am • 4 0 • view
Hate recognizes hate.
aug 12, 2025, 3:35 am • 1 0 • view
The thing I keep coming back to that makes MAGA make sense to me is this blog on abusive parents: www.issendai.com/psychology/e...
aug 12, 2025, 1:40 am • 1 0 • view
“Contradictory Beliefs, Double Standards” is the 🚩🚩🚩 It’s some deep primal psychological control by a narcissistic sociopath that feels familiar—family of origin dysfunctions are the tractor beam.
aug 12, 2025, 4:54 pm • 1 0 • view
it is something worth figuring out. though i'm sure a simple argument could be that they're just evil people, who enjoy watching people "lesser then them" suffer.
aug 12, 2025, 1:36 am • 1 0 • view
They are deranged.
aug 12, 2025, 2:11 am • 2 0 • view
A desire to uphold white supremacy in a deeply racist country, an assault on critical thinking in the education system, and people more concerned with stupid video clips on their pocket computers than the world in front of them. Oh, and the destruction of media and an informed citizenry.
aug 12, 2025, 1:43 am • 19 1 • view
THIS. They don’t necessarily belief the felon, they don’t care about truth objectively. They just want a leader who hates the same people they do-everyone not white, straight, Christian faux or not.
aug 12, 2025, 1:44 am • 8 0 • view
And male, the most important criteria of all
aug 12, 2025, 5:40 pm • 1 0 • view
And look at the mess the men in power make.
aug 12, 2025, 6:05 pm • 1 0 • view
I think it's as simple as until impacted directly, people don't make the effort to wade through all the news noise to fact find and research...unless that is your job. I have the luxury of being retired so I have that time to spend. Never had that prior, being too caught up in work, life and sleep.
aug 12, 2025, 1:58 am • 1 0 • view
With the amount of information flooding what we watch or listen to it's easy to just tune it out... And the loudest voice is what they remember.
aug 12, 2025, 2:02 am • 0 0 • view
The precursor to MAGA was the Tea Party. That spiteful movement formed out of the blue upon the election of the first African-American POTUS in US history. MAGA is the Tea Party in its midlife crisis stage. 🫤
aug 12, 2025, 1:41 am • 14 0 • view
True. But let’s be clear. It’s a cult.
aug 12, 2025, 1:33 am • 14 0 • view
White supremacy. This isn't rocket science, dude. They would rather be WHITE than Right.
aug 12, 2025, 2:39 am • 4 0 • view
aug 12, 2025, 1:23 am • 5 0 • view
Been trying to figure that out for ten years now. Don’t think I ever will.
aug 12, 2025, 1:34 am • 1 0 • view
I’ll say it again - you have an obvious inbreeding problem down there.
aug 12, 2025, 3:53 am • 1 0 • view
Because most Americans are not facing reality.
aug 12, 2025, 1:39 am • 1 0 • view
My suspicion is they don’t. They are all “in on the joke” of owning the libs and shitting on non-whites.
aug 12, 2025, 1:29 am • 2 0 • view
The sensible party members left or are sitting on the sidelines until further notice. The ones who remain are not capable of accepting they are wrong. You’ll never reach them. The good news is his base is a lot smaller than many of us realize.
aug 12, 2025, 3:22 am • 1 0 • view
Excellent point!
aug 12, 2025, 12:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Cognitive decline in boomers. We’re collectively outliving our brains.
aug 12, 2025, 1:56 am • 1 0 • view
More genz and millennials voted for him than should have.
aug 12, 2025, 2:30 am • 1 0 • view
This is why he attacks education
aug 12, 2025, 1:31 am • 10 0 • view
LBJ said "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." Trump plays on hatred. These people believe their misfortune is the fault of others.
aug 12, 2025, 2:39 am • 7 0 • view
I’m not so sure they all believe him, but they don’t care.
aug 13, 2025, 12:05 am • 0 0 • view
To cover up their racism bigotry and or stupidity.
aug 12, 2025, 1:38 am • 1 0 • view
They don’t. They’re just on his side.
aug 12, 2025, 1:44 am • 0 0 • view
Revenge hatred racism misogyny. Same reasons hrc lost after knowing what was clear about djt & Harris lost after djt’s 1st term & knowing what we know.
aug 12, 2025, 1:31 am • 6 0 • view
I believe it’s because his lies reinforce their own biases, fears, and xenophobia. Their lot in life could be better if it wasn’t for the “other” - whatever that week’s bogeyman is.
aug 12, 2025, 2:25 pm • 0 0 • view
It is the answer. Also, they share the same hate.
aug 12, 2025, 1:27 am • 1 0 • view
All you need is a narrative agenda that you can somehow connect to a common obstacle or challenge (whether real or perceived) in someones life. Connect your agenda to that challenge, then look 'em straight in the eyes & lie like you believe it all.
aug 12, 2025, 2:11 am • 0 0 • view
They know they are being lied to, and they don't care. They are mini trumps themselves, with no moral core. They have convinced themselves that trumpism will benefit them, and that's all they care about, or want to believe.
aug 14, 2025, 8:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Serious lack of reasoning, inability to think critically.
aug 12, 2025, 4:30 am • 2 0 • view
They’re deplorable.
aug 12, 2025, 1:31 am • 1 0 • view
Need for yacht fuel or some ridiculous belief that you care how much a billionaire pays for things.
aug 12, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
I just don’t get that many educated Americans believe the BS coming out of Trump
aug 12, 2025, 2:12 am • 1 0 • view
Being part of a community is important, especially now when so much of life is lived virtually. Their community just revolves around hate, envy, blame, and revenge.
aug 12, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 0 • view
The sane Americans need to sue the fuck out of the mainstream media and Fox.
aug 12, 2025, 3:14 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, yes it is. It's a cult, based on ignorance, racism and white fear. That's it.
aug 12, 2025, 2:18 am • 4 0 • view
Stupid is the answer. They’re stupid.
aug 14, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Do you really not know? Blaming others removes impetus to self reflect. As long as the blame is "out there" they never have to examine their own choices or beliefs.
aug 12, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Fear, racism and a bad education
aug 12, 2025, 1:29 am • 5 0 • view
He hates the same people they do. It sustains them. They cannot afford for their leader who justifies that hate to be anything other than perfect. (I live in MAGAville and know them).
aug 12, 2025, 4:59 am • 2 0 • view
They want Santa to be real.
aug 12, 2025, 1:57 am • 1 0 • view
How about because they're hateful bogot racists who won't take accountability for their own shortcomings?
aug 12, 2025, 1:27 am • 2 0 • view
It is the answer though sadly. And racism is the heart of it
aug 12, 2025, 5:38 pm • 0 0 • view
At the bottom rung you'll find misery. And if they can make other people miserable, they don't feel so alone.
aug 12, 2025, 6:17 pm • 0 0 • view
It is a cult. Pedoman hates the same people they hate plus he despises democrats and says so publicly. And he is proving daily he is their retribution for their perceived wrongs. Birds of a feather
aug 12, 2025, 1:37 am • 7 0 • view
I guess they all like what he says and does. I guess they want to live under a dictator .
aug 12, 2025, 7:58 am • 0 0 • view
Because he hates all the same people they hate .
aug 12, 2025, 2:36 am • 4 0 • view
Suggestions: 1) Fox News and the neuroscience of repetition confused with truth 2) because he says what they WANT to believe 3) twenty years of grooming to think that Trump is a superhuman winner 4) because media sanewashes and refuses to use words like ‘illegal’ and ‘unconstitutional’
aug 12, 2025, 2:44 am • 2 0 • view
Relentless and in sync RW media.
aug 12, 2025, 2:40 am • 1 0 • view
Because they watch Fox entertainment and Newsmax and are fed the lies that spew out of Trumps mouth! Neither station will correct the lies. They parrot the lies. You ask a supporter about something on another news station, and they will say they never heard that.
aug 12, 2025, 2:18 pm • 0 0 • view
They've defunded public education here for decades... they knew this would happen eventually & counted on it.
aug 12, 2025, 1:32 am • 5 0 • view
Agreed!
aug 14, 2025, 6:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Sometimes the simplest and most obvious explanation is correct; they're morons plain and simple.
aug 12, 2025, 1:45 am • 1 0 • view
They are people who lack critical thinking skills who are ingesting 24/7 propaganda from FOX and other sources.
aug 14, 2025, 3:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Show videos of Trump and Epstein SA’ing kids….done.
aug 12, 2025, 1:47 am • 0 0 • view
By “believing,” he gives them permission to fly their bigot flags. Read Jesus and John Wayne. It explains much about the MAGA white Christian evangelical nationalist rationale. Also White Too Long and Twilight of Democracy.
aug 15, 2025, 12:49 am • 1 0 • view
Excellent book. Confederate in the Attic is another good one.
aug 15, 2025, 1:10 am • 0 0 • view
Selfishness. A feeling that someone other than themselves is getting something they want or deserve. So much for the old fashioned pull yourself up by the bootstraps.
aug 12, 2025, 11:38 pm • 1 0 • view
That's just it. They have an absolute belief that if you're poor, it's because you're sinful, you deserve to be poor. The MAGA hard-core believers are insistent that if you're good, you'll be successful.
aug 15, 2025, 1:13 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 12, 2025, 7:53 pm • 0 0 • view