Fleeing the Trap

AMIDST THE CHAOS AND TURMOIL, the dissension, back and forth, the "strutting and fretting", a question comes to mind. Do the people who still support Donald Trump's political ambitions, and there remain tens of millinons of them, reamin supportive in spite of Trump's glaring inadequacies...or because of them? By "glaring inadequacies", it thould be readily apparent what it meant. The litany of crimanal activity, blatant prevarications, moral and intellectual sins of enormous variety and extent, needn't be recapitulated. That he Trump, might become president again, as indeed he well might, against this backdrop, seems astonishing. I know many many Trump supporters. They're good people, almost to a person. They say and do crazy things though, leading to the suggestion that with regard to their love of Trump, they are doing their thinking on a purely emotional level, and are putting their intellectuals attributes, whatever they may be, on hold for the duration. On the "in spite of" side of the coin, they seem to have a penchant for compartmental thinking; burying the negatives out of view, and on the "because of" side, the answers become vague, having to do mostly with the three great pillars of Trump support: freedom of guns, immmigration cessation, and lower taxes, less government, with a religious based culturally traditional value set. A friend of mine bet me a cold case of imported beer in 2021 that within a few months, Turmp would be back inpower as president. He's been mad at me ever since I made him pay up. (What did he expect?). once he told me that he knows damned good and well that climate change has nothing to do with human behavior, because he is a geologist. How he figures that is anyone's guess. Support for Trump is all emotion, and based on anger at a rapidly diversifying American culture, with "white" people decline as a percentage of the general population, and gay and transgdner people demanding recognition and respect. For Trump supporters the rate of change in America is far too great, and they want to take us back to a simpler time. Although they never mention Trump's many examples of horrible actions and deeds. In most cases, they are aware of them, even if they twist and distort so drastically that a premeditated and well organized attempt at violently overthrowing the government becomes a guided tour, or a harmless rally that sorta got out ot hand.