It’s a cult.

these people are so clueless

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Intubated person scribbles furiously on paper

Reads: Vaccines kill, send me home with some ivermectin

It's hard to believe, but there has always been as much as 20% of the population who are willing to believe anything that makes them feel special. These are the people who think they would be successful and happy if they weren't being kept down by aliens, ghosts, or secret international conspiracies. What Trump has done is to give them an enemy they can see. That has brought them all together and brought in another segment who are slightly less crazy, but are united by their hatred of "others".

If most people in this country voted, they would be scary, but not large enough to be a political force. As it is, they are still a minority, but not by a safe margin. Any time they can convince a small group of independents to vote them they are capable of winning elections. Even without that, their "win by any means" non-ethic means they can game the system and outright cheat while feeling good about themselves. That has allowed them to win more elections.

We should be able to win back the independents, and I think we largely have. I don't know that there's much we can do about the rest of them. Now that they have been weaponized and unified, they will continue to be a threat until the current generation of them die off. We need to contest every election and fight for our democracy. There are enough of us to do that successfully, if we make the sustained effort to do it.

There are also people who still support Nazis and that Venn diagram is a circle.

MAGAts are a total loss. We should do everything possible to minimize their impact on society.

They dug themselves that deep, huh? They should keep digging that grave. We hope we can move on without their regressive beliefs affecting others.

Stop trying to convince MAGAs - they won’t change their mind. Actually ignore them as good as possible.

Try to activate all those people that do not vote. This is the most important thing to do.

Hello dear Cult45. You know what? I have one helluva deal for you. I have a bunch of money tied up in Nigeria that I'd like to get so I'm going to make one of you cousin humpers the deal of a lifetime. I have a bridge for sale, and I'm willing to sell it to one of you mouth breathing snowflakes for a bargain of a lifetime.

Literally anything happening:

Cultist: I like my cult even more now!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Wearing a shirt festooned with countless images of Donald Trump, Leverne Martin was looking cheerful for a man who had set off from Poplar Bluff, Missouri, at 9pm and driven through the night, arriving in Dubuque, Iowa, at 5.30am.

Like so many fans in so many towns and cities over nearly a decade, an overwhelmingly white crowd had come to cheer on Trump, elected US president in 2016, beaten by Joe Biden in 2020 and clear frontrunner for the Republican nomination in 2024.

Video clips of allies such as the broadcaster Tucker Carlson and Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán and foes such as Biden and the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, elicit boos and jeers.

When he rode down a New York escalator in June 2015, Trump demonised immigrants as criminals, drug dealers and rapists and made the building of a wall on the US-Mexico border his signature issue.

I’ll also invoke immediately the Alien Enemies Act to remove all known or suspected gang members.” He also promised to expand on a travel ban that barred people from several countries with majority-Muslim populations during his presidency.

The rally came amid fresh criticism from conservatives for Trump over his refusal to commit to a national restriction on abortion and description of DeSantis’s signing of a six-week ban as a “terrible mistake”.

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A big part of this problem is that many of these people were selected as the most gullible and credulous from British society during the colonial era. Mix in religion, poor education and you have fertile ground for all sorts of whacky beliefs to grow unchecked. As we come out of the shadow of WWII we see the rise of populism all over the western world. The same methods the Nazis used are in effect: sowing division and cults of personality. The propagation of these ideas has been supercharged by the internet.

sad.