They don’t care.
One of the reason you can’t even engage with Trumpers politically is that they fundamentally don’t care. There is a deep and ultimately lethal nihilism to it all.
I vividly remember watching it live on CNN and hearing Jake Tapper say something like "don't ever forget what you are watching right now because someday soon Trump and his sycophants will tell you it didn't actually happen."
I remember watching it on TV at the gym and thinking, well at least that’ll be the end of the MAGA movement now that people have seen where it inevitably leads. I vastly underestimated how stupid and gullible a lot of my fellow Americans were and are.
> Republican gets elected President.
> Cuts benefits for the poor.
> Cuts taxes for the rich.
> Starts a war over oil.
It's crazy how it’s always the same thing every single time.
How did Christians interpret “Don’t use my name in vain” as don’t say “Oh my god” instead of “Don’t use my name to colonize and enslave half the planet."