For many conservatives, I imagine giving up on Donald Trump is like getting a hankering for Arby's

[piechartking]

while driving on the Interstate, and missing one because you couldn't get over fast enough to get the exit.

So you keep driving, thinking "I'll just get the next one." But this isn't a more-common McDonald's or even Wendy's. it's not a gas station. It's Arby's...so you keep driving. And driving. Now you're invested in going forward because to go back would be, well, going back.

But the next Arby's could be 58 miles down the Interstate. Just turn back around. Go back to the Arby's you saw in the back, and save yourself the time and the distance.

[scardycat]

1. More like going through Heroin withdrawal symptoms n/t

[Orsino]

2. It won't be quick, and it won't be cheap...

...and you hope no one will see you doing it. Also, there could be diarrhea.

[Hortensis]

3. That Gold Star mom booed at the Trump rally

said many people there thanked her for being brave enough to speak up. They also participated in or sat through a number of "lock her up"-type chants from a hooligan crowd.

No doubt the Arby's syndrome for some. But somehow I doubt all of those will be experiencing that craving after what was likely deep-immersion aversion therapy.

Notably, we all but very particularly conservatives care what other people think. And they're very rapidly finding themselves cast in a seemingly "new" role as adulators of a buffoon.