MAGA dead-enders cling to delusions
The boundary between sanity and insanity is the psychiatric concept of “reality testing.” Trump crossed over that boundary into insanity long ago. The very first day of his presidency, he was selling his delusion that his inauguration was the biggest in American history. He found a willing audience for his falsehoods in America’s right-wing rubes.
From the beginning, Kellyanne Conway was peddling what she called “alternative facts,” and Giuliani was assuring us that “truth was not truth.” Of late, some of Trump’s biggest enablers have been jumping off the Trump crazy train. Even a Republican lapdog like Pat Robertson said Trump is living in an “alternate reality.” Loyalists like John Bolton, Chris Christie and Bill Barr found the paranoid fantasy of election fraud an insane bridge too far.
MAGA dead-enders, however, continue to follow this clown as he plots America’s first coup. Meeting with Mike Flynn and Steve Bannon, he has been working on a plan to declare martial law in four states to overturn elections that he lost, while totally ignoring a pandemic that is killing 3,000 Americans a day. About 71 million Americans drank the Trump Kool-Aid.
Terry Stulce