And those who truly believe that Trump's promises are/were sincere are the truest victims here.

They are among those who are always deceived.

They have been purposely dumbed down.

of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or count himself lost ... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron"

Henry Louis Mencken, 1920

But we should hope that he was not entirely correct in such an assessment

But why didn't this dumbing down work on us?

Being pissed off that their lives supposedly suck and looking for scapegoats. Upbringing coupled with internal fears of women and / or people different than themselves. Lots of factors make them susceptible to the right propaganda.

differ so much because parents treated us *very differently*. My very RW brother has untreated ADD. He looked for scapegoats for his failures and found them in the party of lies/liars. Limpballs snags truck drivers.

...he committed murder in broad daylight.

Sadly, there are tens of millions of such people.

So the more destructive he becomes the stronger they support him.

They hate the government because from Reagan on they've been told over and over that government is bad and must be brought down.
Now it's happening and the fools are cheering.

Drives libruls crazy

It CAN'T BE THE OTHER THING, Stormy Daniels already calls him "TINY"

An important US law with respect to doing business abroad. I have to do ethics training on that every year, though I have no contact with foreign vendors or customers. It's a short video with questions that I don't pay really close attention to. Just enough to get most of the questions right. But in my mind, if there is even a whisper of impropriety by Joe Biden or his son doing business with a foreign company and bribing or pressuring foreign government officials with respect to that business, why the fuck isn't Barr's justice department investigating? I'm certainly no legal scholar, but I think this would definitely fall in the US Justice Dept's jurisdiction. Where's the federal investigation, trumpers? Barr the Hut is too busy? Or are they too scared to weaponize the Justice department to that degree?