If Trump's backers are unmoveable, do I stop pushing?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

By Tom Burke

Herald columnist

Since before his election I’ve been writing about Donald Trump.

I’ve written about his racism, his lies, his incompetence, his laziness, his grifter-filled cabinet, his delusions, his terrible policies, his $1,000-per-U.S.-household tariff wars, his ego and narcissism, his failed tax cut, his sexual predation, his refusal to confront Russia on the 2020 election, his cowardice, and his totalitarian-like actions.

I wrote about him because I thought if his supporters were exposed to what Trump actually says, and does, they would “get” his failure as president.

I was wrong, so I’m gonna stop writing about him.

Why, you ask?

Because it’s finally dawning on me that by continuing their enthusiastic support of Trump his MAGAs really believe what he espouses: his racism; his support of white supremacists; his lies about global warming; his belief 5 million people voted illegally; and that Russia didn’t influence the 2016 election.

By supporting him they clearly believe in his destructive trade wars with China and Europe and Mexico and Canada; his attacks on Congressional oversight; his foul name-calling; his caging children and separating families; his conspiracy theories about Obama, Fox News, and Clinton killing Epstein; his belief Google manipulated 16 million votes; that his handpicked Fed chair is trying to cause a recession; that the media is “fake” and an enemy of the people; that Democrats are “communists and socialists;” his sexual predation; that there’s “No collusion, No obstruction” in the Muller report, and he’s the “King of Israel.”

These aren’t people who simply haven’t seen the light.

These aren’t people who can be educated, if only actual facts were clearly and logically presented.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. Many of them are the same as jihadis....fanatics. It is a waste of time.

They just haven't decided to blow people up yet.

[Cartoonist]

2. Fudd's Law

If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Yes! They are a waste of time and energy.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/a-psychological-analysis-of-trump-supporters-has-uncovered-5-key-traits-about-them/

I read an article about them two years ago and it still applies. Their psychological make up, in general, is beyond listening and thinking to anyone about anything that they don't already believe in.

[SharonAnn]

4. yes, it's a waste of time.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

5. They exist in an isolated, enclosed right-wing cult bubble with the doors locked.

Not much need to even knock on that door in my experience. We can't unwind 10, 20, or 30 years of constant brainwashing in one conversation.