For Tump supporters the "insanity" is a feature, not a flaw. But what we perceive as insanity they see as "telling it like it is" in a manner that drives libs crazy while pushing all the buttons which validate their worst instincts and resentments.
Trump gets away with being a pathological liar because the age of the internet has brought us to a place where totally different versions of reality have provided havens of confirmation bias to further reinforce the decades of propaganda from talk radio and Fox News.
It's all been crafted into a unifying ideology that hooks people by their religious beliefs while waving the flag of pseudo patriotism and demonizing baby killing liberals who are waging a war against Christianity and threatening to take "their country" away from them by opening our borders to swarms of brown people who rape and murder.
Trump gets away with his insanity because 40% of the voting public is insane and because the oligarchy increases and holds onto their great wealth and power by dividing the American people, keeping us at each other's throats instead of working together for our own common interests.
The Republican Party serves the oligarchy and has had a large degree of political success with the lies and propaganda which are the foundation of today's "conservative" ideology. Many of them may have despised Trump but like it or not he took the lies and demagoguery to the next level, trouncing them all in siezing (with the help of Vlad Putin) the most powerful political office on the planet.
Republicans will do everything they can to protect that power because it is the foundation of their own and because they will be abandoned by their campaign donors and their primary voters if they dare stand up against this treasonous degenerate.
It is a mountain of insanity that has to be climbed and overcome by those of us who can see the insanity for what it is.
Though we are the majority there is considerable wealth and power arrayed against us, along with the anachronistic Electoral College and Republican controlled state governments which have been busy at voter suppression since a rightwing majority Supreme Court overturned the Voting Rights Act.
I long for a sane world in which revelations of Trump's insanity, appalling ignorance, lies, racism, crimes, and treasonous behavior would render him incapable of controlling a major political party or winning an election, but that is not the world we live in right now. Outrages and scandals which should have sunk him long ago have become the new normal, at least for him (different rules apply to Democrats).
We are in an existential battle for the life of our Constitutional republic, for liberal democracy throughout the world, and for the sustainability of life on our precious planet.
Insanity has siezed power. We have to defeat it.
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