Why is this election even close? Because Trump voters will walk off a cliff rather than admit they..

[marmar]

Trump's supporters haven't budged, despite everything. WTAF?
Why is this election even close? Because Trump voters will walk off a cliff rather than admit they were wrong

AMANDA MARCOTTE
NOVEMBER 3, 2020 6:15PM


(Salon) The orange spray-tan was barely wiped off Donald Trump's inauguration Bible before the mainstream media went on Trump Voter Remorse Watch. Working off a common but incorrect understanding of human psychology — that, given evidence and time, people come to regret their worst decisions — journalists kept interviewing Trump voters over and over, in "heartland" diners and farm fields and gargantuan exurban malls, in search of evidence that doubts were starting to creep in.

I found the whole thing exhausting fairly quickly. In June 2017, I published an article in which I concluded, after interviewing psychological experts, that "the answer to the question of when Trump voters will come around is somewhere between 'a long, long time from now' and more likely 'never.'"

Here we are, three and a half years later, and things have gone even more poorly than we could have imagined. Trump was impeached for trying to extort a foreign leader into smearing a political opponent, the economy is in the toilet and getting worse, and 231,000 Americans have died in a pandemic that spiraled out of control, largely due to Trump's malicious incompetence.

And yet: Trump's approval ratings remain at a stubborn 44.6%, which is only 1.3 percentage points below the popular-vote share that was enough to snag an admittedly flukish electoral victory in 2016. His rating has slipped a few points below that level here and there, but it always bounces back. Right now, it's as robust as ever, and the vast majority of the people who voted for him in 2016 are clearly doing it again, while telling themselves a story about how this is justified because — seriously, they're telling themselves this — he's doing a good job. ..............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2020/11/03/trumps-supporters-havent-budged-despite-everything-wtaf/

[Mme. Defarge]

1. I call it

the sin of pride.

[Laelth]

2. Stubborn refusal to learn from one's mistakes.

Yep. PRIDE, as rightly noted above.



-Laelth

[Saboburns]

3. Nah. They're too fucking stupid to know they're wrong.

That's the whole crux right there.

Ignorance!

[Rizen]

7. And racist too.

Stupidity and racism compose the keystone of today's republican party.

[LizBeth]

4. It is not close.

[stopbush]

5. This

[LizBeth]

6. Right. Lol....

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

8. Ok, so are they walking off cliffs now? n/t