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To the end of my days I will never understand how seemingly rational people can drink Trump’s vile KoolAid. Eastman is a despicable fool, but he is presumably rational, ie, not clinically insane. He presumably knows 2 + 2 = 4, though under Trump’s toxic spell 2 + 2 would equal whatever Trump said it should be. Or Giuliani, the Mayor of New York “Fitty.” America’s mayor, he was called, post 9/11. That was his finest hour. What happened to him? He became a paid liar, and his career is in ruins, a…
I am going through this with a lifelong friend. I'm struggling to understand how a person I thought was bright and rational, and good and kind, can't see through Trump. I feel the cultish-ness of it - the canned arguments (Hunter Biden!) and phrases (the people who are destroying this country!). It seems important to him that I "convert".
My best explanation is he is disappointed with life - he was the great high school athlete, and I was his geeky friend but somehow things didn't pan out as he …
ca queens, that is an eloquent reply. It takes a swag at why an otherwise rational person and friend goes down that dirty, rutted road that ends in a bridge with a trap door. The friend you described pretty much matches the two I mentioned. Both were athletic and smart and they whine for a world (white, male dominated, though they don’t explicitly say so) that is crumbling before their eyes. I’ve known one since kindergarten, the other since 10th grade, and I’ve terminated the friendships… not without regret. I am puzzled and saddened by their allegiance to an ignorant, lying, amoral, cowardly sexist grifter and traitor.