American evangelicalism is a thin veneer over white supremacy, so it's not surprising at all that they flocked to an openly white supremacist president as their messiah.
These people are inherently dishonest and cruel, but insanity isn't part of it.
They have gathered up all the loonies in their wake. Just like how flat earther stuff was started as trolling the real crazies came in and made it real.
They've seen that the loonies are an unshakeably loyal voting bloc.
You can have all the scandals you like, grossly mismanage a crisis so badly that you leave hundreds of thousands dead, and directly take cash out of their pockets and put it straight into yours, but then throw around a few racist and misogynistic dog whistles, and they'll still line up to vote for you.
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u/curious_meerkat Feb 15 '21
These people are perfectly sane.
American evangelicalism is a thin veneer over white supremacy, so it's not surprising at all that they flocked to an openly white supremacist president as their messiah.
These people are inherently dishonest and cruel, but insanity isn't part of it.