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'It's a cult': Former GOP lawmaker blames Republicans for contributing to the cult of Trump
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I'm not sure I understand your question. In the segment of my comment that you quoted, I was simply saying that it's difficult for me to fathom that 75% of Trump supporters (and ~90% of conservatives support Trump) report having a cult-like devotion to him, to the point that they simply believe anything he says like it's the gospel truth. That's roughly 1/3 of the U.S. population, approximately 110 million people, who regard this man like he's basically infallible, who think he won the 2020 election, that there's a huge Democrat conspiracy to rig elections, that all the present charges against him are fabricated, with large chunks of them believing even loonier shit, and who apparently can't recognize the most obvious, artless, opaquely sociopathic liar modern media has ever presented to them for what he is. That blows my fucking mind.
Ah. I was using rough numbers, but it looks like I overestimated the % of conservatives who support Trump right now. Presently, around 62% of them support him. I think I was recalling data from an earlier time, because it stuck in my head. But the 75% estimate comes from the following two recently published stats: Trump's voters trust him more than they trust friends and family and Percentage of Republicans who think Biden’s 2020 win was illegitimate ticks back up near 70%.
So, to recalculate, that's around 22% of the U.S. population or roughly 72 million people that treat him like a demigod. Admittedly not as bleak in pure numbers, but still terrifying. And, notably, if you eliminate DeSantis and give his percentage of GOP support (16%) to Trump, it's back up at 78%, and I'm willing to bet a significant portion of those voters also believe the 2020 election was stolen.