The author is confusing reality with what people believe. Trumpists will simply believe Trump when he tells people that all the disasters he creates are "really" the fault of Democrats, Lizard People, Jewish space lasers, the Chinese, illegal immigrants, and whoever else he dreams up as a scapegoat. Trumpists are in thrall to their mindless orange god and will automatically swallow all his lies regardless of the fact the world will be burning around them. This is the power of qualification-free representative democracy, in which any moron can stand for election and any moron can vote.