Why do they like him?

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

18. Carl Sagan was even more detailed about the doubling down

All the way back in 1995:

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

―The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Are we ever seeing the truth of that play out now.