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DEFINITELY--the Trump supporter will go to the grave with Donald Trump. They wouldn't care if Vladimir Putin moved his desk into the Oval office--they would still hang in there with Trump, no matter what he did, no matter what he said or tweeted or if he started WW3. They will be faithful to the end. They are a different breed of people in this nation, and they are now able to choose the news in the manner they want to receive it, via right wing wing talk show hosts on radio & T.V. IOW--the news they WANT to hear.
Here is a great article on the mind of a Trump supporter.
"Thereās no doubt that Donald Trump has said many things that would have been political suicide for any other Republican candidate. And almost every time he made one of these shocking statements, political analysts on both the left and the right predicted that heād lose supporters because of it. But as we have clearly seen over the past year, they were dead wrong every time. Trump appears to be almost totally bulletproof.
The only thing that might be more perplexing than the psychology of Donald Trump is the psychology of his supporters. In their eyes, The Donald can do no wrong. Even Trump himself seems to be astonished by this phenomenon. āI could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldnāt lose any voters, OK? Itās, like, incredible.ā
The Dunning-Kruger Effect:
Some believe that many of those who support Donald Trump do so because of ignorance ā basically they are under-informed or misinformed about the issues at hand. When Trump tells them that crime is skyrocketing in the United States, or that the economy is the worst itās ever been, they simply take his word for it.
The seemingly obvious solution would be to try to reach those people through political ads, expert opinions, and logical arguments that educate with facts. Except none of those things seem to be swaying any Trump supporters from his side, despite great efforts to deliver this information to them directly.
The Dunning-Kruger effect explains that the problem isnāt just that they are misinformed; itās that they are completely unaware that they are misinformed. This creates a double burden.
Studies have shown that people who lack expertise in some area of knowledge often have a cognitive bias that prevents them from realizing that they lack expertise. As psychologist David Dunning puts it in an op-ed for Politico, āThe knowledge and intelligence that are required to be good at a task are often the same qualities needed to recognize that one is not good at that task ā and if one lacks such knowledge and intelligence, one remains ignorant that one is not good at the task. This includes political judgment.ā Essentially, theyāre not smart enough to realize theyāre dumb.
And if one is under the illusion that they have sufficient or even superior knowledge, then they have no reason to defer to anyone elseās judgment. This helps explain why even nonpartisan experts ā like military generals and Independent former Mayor of New York/billionaire CEO Michael Bloomberg ā as well as some respected Republican politicians, donāt seem to be able to say anything that can change the minds of loyal Trump followers.
Out of immense frustration, some of us may feel the urge to shake a Trump supporter and say, āHey! Donāt you realize that heās an idiot?!ā No. They donāt. That may be hard to fathom, but thatās the nature of the Dunning-Kruger effect ā oneās ignorance is completely invisible to them."
A neuroscientist explains what may be wrong with Trump supportersā brains
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Which leads to the question--where does a Trump supporter get their information from? That leads them to believe that they're well informed and sometimes even believe they have "superior" political knowledge.
They get it from 3 or more daily hours of right wing hyperbole, half truths, misconceptions and enough conspiracy theories to fill the capital building from floor to ceiling from the below right wing talk show hosts. These right wing talk show hosts regurgitate information and then spoon fed it back to their audiences into the news they want to hear.
Even if Trump is impeached and irrefutable evidence is laid out on the table the below right wing talk show hosts will still support Trump, and their listeners will go along. They'll come up with some conspiracy theory and they'll run with it and their listeners will believe every word of it. Simply because they want to believe it.
Donald Trump broke the conservative media
"It is not entirely true that Trump engineered a āhostile takeoverā of the GOP, provided that the party is defined more broadly than elected officials and party insiders. As Conor Friedersdorf wrote last year in the Atlantic: āthe elements of the party that sent pro-Trump cues or 'Trump is at least acceptableā signals to primary votersāRush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, Sarah Palin, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Jeff Sessions, Rick Scott, Jan Brewer, Joe Arpaio, Breitbart.com, The Drudge Report, The New York Post, āare simply more powerful, relative to National Review, Mitt Romney, John McCain, and other āTrump is unacceptableā forces, than previously thought.ā
The GOP That Failed
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