Why Do They Like it So Much?
Why does Trump’s base, and the elected Republican officials who are catering to them and their still all-powerful vote, actually seem to like what he’s doing — to somehow enjoy the sacking of their nation — the vandalizing of their vaunted ‘democracy,’ even if (in the case of elected Republican officials) it means their own recent re-elections are cast into doubt, delegitimized and invalidated, along with all the other People’s choices?
In the case of the base: They don’t understand. They don’t know that their as yet all-powerful vote is in the breach, is endangered, and on the brink of being lost forever in a civil disaster and ideological coup — the death of democracy in America. And they don’t care. They only want to land some punches. They are moral “deplorables.” And — morally, ethically, civilly, compassionately, humanely, responsibly and cognitively — they are the ‘lost.’
In the case of the elected Republican representatives: They are so cynical, it is questionable if they even signify as more that cyphers at this point. They knew each and every one of the 60-odd fallacious law suits were absurd, and doomed to fail, but they lusted to sign-on to gain the support, and avoid the violence, abuse and dismissal, of that sad and deluded base.
Because they know it’s a cult — one of their own making — having cultivated it for decades of propagandizing and gerrymandering as ignorant, uneducated, misled, hopped up on fear-based delusion and evangelical hysteria, high on fear and loathing of the ‘Other’ — and they’re afraid of it.
This beast is way, way worse, more malignant, more vast in its import and scope — and more terrifying — than Frankenstein’s monstrous creation.
