Why does Citizen Trump still have so much support?

After downplaying the pandemic, after ridiculing masks and thereby contributing to its spread to the point where the United States has a seriously disproportionate share of worldwide cases and deaths, after years of his prolific dishonesty, after his adoration of ruthless foreign dictators, after having dozens of election lawsuits thrown out by Democratic and Republican judges, after encouraging the adherents of dangerous lunatic conspiracy theories as long as they like him, after raising millions of dollars from trusting supporters ostensibly to fight the election “steal” (loss) and then reportedly using only a small fraction for that purpose, after riling up an insurrectionist mob with lies and nearly getting former Vice President Mike Pence hanged and others actually killed, after then trying to cover by publicly disavowing those fervent supporters who invaded the Capitol, after refusing at long last to admit his lie about the election and thereby defuse the bitterness and rage felt by those who still believe it, why? It may be that many people actually long for a powerful authoritarian who declares that his revealed truth is the real and only truth, regardless of what reason, science, law and logic say, and who claims to know more about everything than anybody and be better than anybody at everything. Fortunately, many have seen that this man with a god-complex is a very false god indeed. Unfortunately, not everyone has.

John Harper
Colonie