Why Trump's followers still love the boss: Crime is a feature, not a bug

[marmar]

Why Trump's followers still love the boss: Crime is a feature, not a bug
Trump's true believers will never abandon him. They love his vicious, amoral behavior. It's time to face that

By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED JANUARY 26, 2024 5:30AM (EST)


(Salon) With a decisive victory in this week's New Hampshire primary, Donald Trump further cemented his control as the unchallenged boss of the Republican Party's political crime organization.

The mainstream media and political class have long assumed that Trump’s obvious criminality and autocratic behavior, along with his evidently worsening sociopathic behavior, would ultimately be the cause of his certain downfall. Their reasoning or hope was that when the American people grasped the full horror of Trump's actions, as shown in the Jan. 6 committee hearings under the previous Congress, his multiple criminal indictments, civil verdicts that have found him liable for sexual assault and business fraud, and his generally vile behavior, even Republican voters would finally reject him en masse.

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In reality, the opposite has happened: Trump’s power as the boss of the Republican political crime organization has grown. The loyalty of his MAGA followers has certainly not weakened, and may have increased. Tens of millions of Americans have eagerly embraced Trump's criminal gang, and many millions more are, at the very least, willing to tolerate it and indulge it.

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Most obviously,: Trump’s followers are eager to seek revenge and retribution against the same people and groups that he does. Even more simply, they love Donald Trump and what they believe he represents. This is especially true for white evangelical Christians, who often view Trump as a prophet, savior or messiah. .................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/01/26/why-followers-still-love-the-boss-is-a-feature-not-a-bug/

[CincyDem]

1. But it's not crime if it's based on white privilege.

That’s the past they love so much.

[shrike3]

2. I've been saying that all along.

They also love that he's an asshole. Any Republican would give them what they wanted. But other Republicans aren't the asshole Trump is. He's King Asshole. And that's who they think should be in the White House, King Asshole.

[Quanto Magnus]

3. We, as a society, glorify/romanticize crimials

Movies, all the Al Capone glorification, video games, music, Faux News.... etc. While we should all be mature enough to separate fiction from reality, we've certainly made it too easy to wallow in that fiction and attempt to apply it to your personal life.

I'm not saying don't do the movies, books, etc.... More that we really need to improve critical thinking education. It wouldn't hurt to bring back the fairness doctrine either.