<< How anyone can support this poor excuse for a human being is beyond me. >>

I devoted nearly 50 years to studying how people form their political views and why they support various political candidates for office. The informational bases of those views and votes are flimsy at best for roughly a third of adult Americans. They may think Trump conveys “strength” or “tells it like it is” or is a “smart businessman.” Press them a bit on why they think that way, and most of the time you’ll get blank stares. Many of them are the “low education” voters for whom Trump expresses his love.

Then you’ve got a bunch of ride-or-die Republicans who vote and defend their brand, end of story. They know Trump’s a narcissistic sociopath, but he’s their narcissistic sociopath.

Add in the white bigots, the misogynist incels, the white evangelicals who believe that God delivered this flawed prophet to lead them, a sprinkling of Hispanic machismos, and the money-grubbers who’d vote for Mussolini if he promised them a tax cut (these are not mutually exclusive categories), and you’ve covered most of the Trump supporters.

The MAGAs who are left, some of whom voted for Obama once or even twice, consist largely of white males and their wives who were shafted by decades of misguided neoliberal economic policies and are fed up with anyone who gives off the vibes of being yet another elitist politician. Alas for them, probably their best hope in decades was Joe Biden.