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2 died of Ebola: They said Obama should resign.
4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a 4-year probe.
402,000 Covid deaths, an armed insurrection & theft of classified documents: They cheered, and want Trump to be president.
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…and rational, it is hard to understand no matter how many explanations have been proferred. 
There have been the obligatory comparisons to Hitler and Mussolini and other strongmen dictators. The situation was described decades back in the film "The American President" (the scene depicting this rhetoric as two things 1) making people afraid and 2) telling them who to blame for it.
Trump is an echo of pent up resentment from any number of causes - social, economic, geopolitical and more.
The Civil Rights era (and truthfully, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Crack Cocaine epidemic, and everything else that came during and after) has never been fully realized and made whole. The Obama Presidency was a massive coalescence of many grievances and a convenient opportunity for a snake-oil salesman like Trump to step into.
BUT...that is also too easy to explain away Trumpism and the intentional delusion of 35% of Americans.
In addition to the potent mix of racial tension, justice denied and inequality, we had the 2008 Banking crisis that ushered out George W. Bush, erased his administration's war crimes and abuse of the American military and allowed him to simultaneously slink off into Crawford, TX and become a painter instead of being ushered into The Hague and facing war crimes tribunals. So at the same time, the banking system imploded, people everywhere saw neighbors evicted or laid off or both and no one in the lower 90% EVER recovered to be whole after that. I lost 5-figures off of my retirement accounts and while the gross number has returned over time, my compounding interest was destroyed and will never be regained. In the end, the Bush economy cost me well over $250,000 in lost, unrealized and never to be regained savings. And NO BANKERS WENT TO JAIL.
Finally, the basic fact of the matter is most Americans are ignorant, irrational reactive and borderline psychotics due to a broken education system, a failed reliance on religious institutions to maintain social cohesion in the face of forces that profit from preventing exactly that...and the willingness of amoral politicians to weaponize these tendencies against us all.
Our antiquated Electoral College and compromised Supreme Court have only served to underline one thing to the masses - "THAT" side (the rightwing) is 'winning' by controlling the decisions and getting the numbers to work by twice claiming the Presidency for a total of 12 years and decades worth of damage to the nation's soul AND stealing iron-clad control of the SCOTUS in the balance. Like it or not, we on the left has allowed the right to get away with these thefts and when we had the chance in 2009-2010 with a nominal 60-seat Senate advantage, control of the House and much narrower SCOTUS than now, we lost to the Tea Party histrionics and right wing nut job media. We should have not only allowed the GOP to shut down government, we should have demanded that it STAY shut down until we extracted concessions and changes in structure that would have alleviated the current morass before ti could be formed. Hindsight is a benefit we do not get in real time though...do not misinterpret that to mean we are to blame FOR the GOP, but we are responsible for not recognizing its eventual reach sooner.
Americans are dumb panicky animals (thank you Tommy Lee Jones circa "Men in Black"
and they are also MASSIVE front-runners for winners (think of the 1980 Olympic Hockey team....before they beat the Russians, there may have been 100 people in the entire United States that could explain a two-line pass, a neutral zone trap and offsides and afterward? 42+ years after, those guys are STILL reverred - even if I lost a lot of respect for some of them in the intervening decades.
Americans love to be able to say that they are 'winning'...it was no accident that Trump used that exact language to hook many of his cult. It was effective and once on the hook? Well if there is one thing universally HATED in America it is admitting to mistakes and owning them in a binary political world where every two years is the "most important election in the history of the republic" and every two years the 'other side' is Satanic puppy drowning perverts hellbent on gaining control of you soul and using it to extract adrenochrome or other such nonsense.
The end result of this 60+ year slide from the hope of Camelot to the ashes of Trumpland? We are living with it now - a twice impeached, 2X popular vote loser, 4X indicted for 91 counts of felony offenses and convicted sexual abuser/rapist STILL holds sway over a half of our two party broken system.
that's what they do. 
I just cannot wrap my mind around how people can support that orange piece of shit.
Is it that they are addicted to Faux Snooze?
Just plaint hatred of certain groups?
Revenge because they think he is getting even for them?
All of the above...and more?
They will treat you like an equal! 
MAGA mindset is confusing.
