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I keep coming back to Herstein's First Law: "Never underestimate human capacity for denial."

I suspect a big part of this is what Altemeyer called the "compartmentalization" (also sometimes called "siloing") of ideas and facts that is enedmic to the authoritarian mind. They have for so long refused to make the connections between compartments (or silos) that, despite being patently obvious, they are now simply incapable of exhibiting any measure of even basic intelligence. This latter is also why people can go to school at nominally top-tier institutions and still come away without an education. Real education is about making those connections, not merely passing a test.

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Right...because Donald Trump "graduated" from Wharton.

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A great perusal! Thanks Cowboy! We’ll kick this orange donkey in his Bigly old, saggin’ white booty! (I’m still unnerved, traumatized, really by the photograph of “Donny shitzhispanties” in white blubbery shorts attempting to ‘play’ tennis!!

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Thanks, my fellow compatriot!💙👏🏼

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Maybe it’s because they know how much it pisses the rest of us off.

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Well, there’s that…and it’s working.

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You said "the hold Trump has over his followers is astonishing and defies explanation." I disagree, it's very explainable. Factoring out the truly delusional, the biggest grip of MAGA is on the evangelical Christian crowd, who have been trained from youth to ignore the evidence of their eyes and ears and to believe in what they're told. If even a portion of them were to exercise that biblical "discernment" they'd realize that they've been conned.

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