I just watched again "Leap of Faith" (1992) with Steve Martin.

Setting: the middle of Kansas. Evangelical Christian road show. Faith leader is total fraud and charlatan takes advantage of a town with people out of work and a crop about to fail for lack of rain for the fifth year in a row. First two shows, he "heals" attendees with faith (like Peter Popoff) and with the help of a transmitter radio.

The town's sheriff is trying to protect the citizens from throwing away their money. He goes to the tent revival and it's packed. He interrupts the "preacher" and reads a list of crimes committed by the holy man and reveals him to be a fraud.

And after a pause, the preacher returns to the stage and admits every accusation is true but turns it around saying he should be more credible than a non-sinner because of his past and he's learned faith through non-faith. And the crowd eats it up.

No spoiler for the end. But, my point is the people who showed up and trusted the fraudulent faith healer struck me as any of the Trump supporters who showed up for his "rallies", who voted for him, and still support him. While the crowds in the movie weren't racist and they were neighborly and kind of Christian, Trump supporters seem to want vengeance on being denied their right to superiority. If you find a snippet on youtube or re-watch the movie, look at the crowds. They absorb anything they want to believe and won't let go of it.

I saw the movie shortly after it came out and believed that blind disciples were sporadic at best, that they weren't so prevalent. I know better now.

How do you talk to these people without telling them what they want to hear? Anything else scares the bejeezus out of them.