Trump's Faithful

The Insurrectionists weren’t “hoodwinked.” They were accomplices. I can’t respect the motives of people who were warned for decades that the media outlets they trusted were neither credible nor honorable; that the Christian Nationalist pastors listened to had un-saintly motives and were false prophets. They despised the people who warned them most. These RW nuts bought their news like consumers, and chose the narrative they wanted to believe. They were complicit because it made them heroes and God’s warriors against conspiracies to destroy the pure goodness the Founders created. They fed their egos off that fantasy. But it wasn't free entertainment; the fantasy had its price.

It’s just now beginning to sink in that, hey, their Fearless Leader didn’t march with them, and that he wasn’t even with them metaphorically. No, they were just his entertainment. He laughed watching them play out the reality show he stage-managed. 

And the worst betrayal of all, he didn’t even pardon for them before he left office. It’s going to take a year or more for all this to sink in, but it’s happening. As they’re going through that, the media outlets they trusted are all being sued into bankruptcy, not just for lying, but for passing on Donald Trump’s lies. In fact, the insurrectionists all lied for him, with him, and about him. This is the basest of the base of Trump’s support, and they might become his worst enemies.