"A Damning Indictment"

 

The cultish portion of the public that continues to support the deranged Malignant Fascist won't quit him no matter what outrages he commits, even toward them.  The MF saw this phenomenon when he commented back in 2015 that he could "stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters."  His angry, ill-informed and largely white following have coalesced around a narcissistic demagogue who shares their sense of victimhood and grievance, but not their aspirations, concerns, and religious beliefs which he falsely trades on.  Salon.com's Chauncey Devega writes in his introduction to his interview of Robert P. Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute, noting that the MF's strongest support is among the evangelical / Christofascist population:

"The American people remain in a deep slumber and state of learned helplessness as Donald Trump and his forces continue with the shock and awe campaign against American democracy, civil society, the rule of law, the Constitution and human decency. The mainstream news media as an institution appears to have chosen a strategy of anticipatory obedience and compliance, if not collaboration, in normalizing Trumpism and his attempts to become the country’s first elected dictator. The Democratic Party is mired in infighting and a perpetual post-mortem about how and why it was routed by Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans in the 2024 election. The concept of how to be an effective opposition party seems outside the grasp of its leaders.

Pro-democracy civil society organizations and the courts are trying to resist Trump’s attempts to neutralize them. Unfortunately, Donald Trump has great leverage in such a struggle and is using the near-limitless resources of the State to impose his will. For example, while the courts have repeatedly ordered a halt or pause on the Trump administration’s actions, it has and continues to treat such orders and rulings as optional, rather than as the commands of a co-equal branch of government, per the Constitution.  

Donald Trump was democratically elected. By choosing him over President Biden and then Vice President Kamala Harris, a majority of voters endorsed Donald Trump’s values, character, behavior and public aspirations to be a dictator on 'day one'. This is a damning indictment." [snip]

....polling by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) has consistently shown that white right-wing Christians are the bedrock of Donald Trump’s support. This level of devotion gives Trump a great amount of power and flexibility in his quest for unlimited power because unlike his predecessors, he has a cult-like following that he can use to claim democratic legitimacy combined with autocratic powers and a willingness to shatter America’s political and societal institutions to achieve his personal and political goals." (our emphasis)

To be sure, there is no public policy solution in the MF's mind, only how he can capitalize on his position and punish his "enemies." His cult will never see that as they follow him blindly, some to their own destruction.