Excuses for Trump
Why are there excuses made for Donald J. Trump? Supporters and of course GOP operatives and those Republicans in elected office make excuses for Donald Trump. Why? At first it was his lack of experience, they said. But after four years their boot licking and ass kissing is something else. It's akin to the sunk cost fallacy, whereby good money is thrown after bad. So much has been invested and hope springs eternal that the investment will eventually pay off. It just needs a little more money, a little more time, a little more care and commitment. If this investment had been done in private perhaps they' would have come to their senses and abandon the investment in Trump. But it's too late for that. It is all public. To turn away now might destroy the political careers for some.
But what of his supporters who ride in caravans and go to his rallies. What are their excuses? They must increasingly find ways to prove mainly to themselves that he is greater than anything that has come before and greater than anything that could follow. It is out of the realm of any kind of change, and the anger can not be turned inward, oh what a fool I have been, but only outward toward others who disagree, a lashing out from the failures and the lack of any competence that is always masked as greatness. Their salvation is to believe the lies.
In their hearts and in their eyes, the man can't be blamed for anything, he has become a hero, an icon and ultimately fetishized. The only thing left for them to feel exalted is for him to become a martyr. This election loss, will not dissuade them from their heedless worship. Though Donald is not dying as far as I know and will continue to live on after he is out of the White House, hopefully to be weighed down with criminal charges. However, it will be as if he has been sacrificed on the altar of corruption and evil but like the 2nd coming he will at some point rise again and bring greater reward to all. In the end it is too painful to admit how wrong they were to place their belief in a man who is as much of a scoundrel as we have seen in politics. Scoundrel may sound archaic and even mild but the definition is that of a dishonorable, unprincipled, mean, base villain.
