Looking forward to Jan. 20, we need to do some soul-searching in order to understand how so many people in America became vulnerable to so many lies.
No, this is not “the race” talk. Though certainly race plays a part in the reason Donald Trump’s lies gained ground in 2015 and over the next four years – at least until he was so filled with lies that he couldn’t even bring himself to be honest about a deadly virus.
This is the lies talk. What does it mean that 73.8 million Americans voted for Donald Trump – even when most of them said they didn’t trust what he said about COVID-19 as it ravaged America?
What does it mean when polls find that 77% of Trump supporters said they believe another Trump lie – that Biden’s win was due to fraud. Fraud that clearly didn’t exist in any measurable amount great enough to change the outcome of the election. Joe Biden received more than 80 million votes – 51% of all the votes cast.
Even if you assume that only 40% of the 47% of Americans who voted for Trump are his die-hard supporters, then we’re still looking at roughly 29 million people who believe the lies Trump repeatedly spun that the election was “rigged.”