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He can lie, cheat, swindle and steal. He can push blue-collar businesses into bankruptcy, and the blue collars still vote for him. He can bankrupt casinos (casinos!) and they will still think he’s a great businessman.
I know we're not supposed to call it a cult, but for many people that is exactly what it appears to be. He is their guru, their savior, the anointed one, the prophet. How any rational person could see him that way seems insane, but we see this kind of behavior over and over again in cults.
Then there are all the cynical opportunists who just hope to advance their personal ambitions, no matter the cost to society. And those who really believe that authoritarianism is the way to go. Ugh.
Sadly, it amounts to a pretty strong coalition. The coalition of the deluded, the fascist-yearning and the cynical. Throw in the white supremacists and similar scum and you have the MAGA horde.
