Healing the Mentally Ill

I RECENTLY MET a young blue collar man of Hispanic descent whose lack of accent indicated that he had been raised in Unitas Estates.  His pick up truck was still festooned with Trumper bumper stickers, and might remain so festooned for much longer, one of which read "Trump 2020: No more bullshit". Maybe by that enigmatic phrasing he meant that he was willing to give Trump one more chance by voting for him again, only on the condition that Trump and his administration stop all the lying, the bad policy, the bullshit. Doubtful, but maybe. Who knows what it meant?  Trump people rarely if ever make sense. I was afraid to ask him whether he thought the election had been rigged. Since most Trumpers do, I figured the odds were good that he was one of the hurt and deluded. I tried to comfort him by assuring him that according to the election result Trump and Trumpism are both very much alive, and that we can expect to see a considerable amount of each in the future. If Trump supporters would only sit down, breathe deeply, and think about it sensibly for a few minutes, which in theory they are capable of doing, they would realize that for a conspiracy to rig th election for Biden to work, it would required so many cooperative, silent people, so much shenanigans, and so much manipulation as to be a miracle of cooperative planning if it worked without being proven or even detected, as John Bolton keeps pointing out. The Department of Homeland security call sit the most secure election in American history; so, if it was rigged, it was rigged to a miraculous degree of success.Not one single trace of any fraud. The people who still refuse to accept the objective reality of the great prevaricator's election defeat bring to min an elderly victim of dementia who has recently suffered the death of a beloved spouse, child, or pet, and has retreated into an imaginary world in which the beloved is still very much alive. In order to keep his cult following motivated, Trump, like any good cult leader, must keep his false narrative alive, that of a righteous cause, beset by enemies, similar to the one Hitler started using late in the war.That they are dividing and harming the country, and impeding necessary progress, to these traitors, for whom personal power and prestige and satisfaction outweigh patriotic duty. Anywhere from forty to seventy percent of Republicans claim to believe that the election was stolen from Trump. The republican party is delusional, mentally iss, just as it has demonstrated by the fact that many of them deny climate change, and it must either be made healthy and whole, or die.