Reaching The Breaking Point

ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSIONALS have not yet reached a consensus concerning exactly what it would take for Trump supporters to abandon their support of an obviously corrupt president, corrupt by his own, unwitting admission. (he publicly called for foreign countries to investigate his political opponent for damaging information). Trump was evidently on the right rack when he proclaimed his capability of gunning someone gun in broad daylight without suffering any loss of popularity. With each passing day, with each passing witness, the testimony increases, the evidence accumulates, and hardens into plain, irrefutable proof that president Trump blackmailed a foreign country into assisting his reelection campaign in exchange for military assistance, using his office for personal gain, flagrantly illegal. Wednesday, 11/9, when the House hearings come to television, millions of uninformed, undecided citizens will learn a great deal, and this may push the president's popularity below any hope of recovery. Then, again, maybe not. The Trump base, somewhere in the upper thirty percentile, has hardened beyond any hope of cracking. Hitler's people went through the same process; hardening their support for their leader, and continuing it even beyond the war, and into hiding amid the ruins of post war starvation, devastation, and mass migrations of millions of refugees across Europe. There are simply a brand of sycophants who insist on going down with the ship. Nixon comes to mind. Initially the prospect of his impeachment had far less public support than Trump's impending impeachment does. But when the vast abundance of evidence of his shenanigans came across the fruited plain via television, the tide turned, and Trickie Dickie bailed, just as his supporters already had. television was the catalyst which broke the camels back, back then. the difference, then and now, is that Nixon was not a cult leader, the fuhrer at the head of a vast right wing extremist populist uprising, which came to power with the power of a coup, with foreign assistance. Donald Trump is an illegitimate president, who was elected illegally, a de facto coup, and who while in office, starting the day of his inauguration, has engaged in a monstrous variety of unethical and illegal activities. And yet,his support remains firm, albeit a minority. First, he and they calime he did noting wrong, and his accusers are witch hunting. then, confronted with proof, they insist that even though he may have done something improper, there was nothing seriously illegal about it. The final step is to accept the illegality, but to insist that the crime does not rise to impeachable standards. Plainly, these folks, the forever trumpers, are determined to go down with the ship, and to maybe even cling to a bit of floating flotsam, singing their sieg heils as they slowly sink beneath the murky swamp, and down into the abyss.