Why Does Anyone Still Like Trump?

Now that one of the leaders of the Proud Boys can spend the next 17 years sitting in a jail cell contemplating how he will lead the next revolutionary wave when he gets out, I find myself trying to figure out how and why anyone could fall for the MAGA nonsense that Trump has been spewing around for the last eight years.

Are so many Americans really that dumb? Do so many Americans actually believe that the country is going down the drain and only Trump and his MAGA movement can make things right?

Most people vote the way I vote, which is to walk into a voting booth and pull the Democrat(ic) lever because that’s the way I have always voted since the first time I voted in 1968.

But the 1,100 men and (a few) women who have been charged with committing some kind of crime on January 6th aren’t just your average voter. They are true believers in every sense of the word.

So, I ask my question again: How do such people get such crazy ideas into their heads? Or better yet, how did Trump figure out that he could become a national, political figure by appealing to such schmucks?

Back at the beginning of the 2016 primary campaign, one of Trump’s political consultants, a guy named Matt Braynard, put together a strategy memo which helped Trump develop his approach to the Presidential campaign. The…