Unfortunately, countless studies have shown that once people form beliefs they will resolutely deny reality and double-down on their beliefs. Even as Russian troops were storming Berlin in 1945 there were Germans who were totally convinced that Hitler had a master plan to turn things around. Even as Stalin sent hundreds of thousands to the gulags, a great many Russians remained convinced he was a great leader building utopia. The GoP has spent the last fifty-seven years targeting the low-IQ, low-status, poorly-educated because they are the easiest people to capture and retain ever after. These people would vote for a dead hamster if there was an R next to its name on the ballot. Moreover, they adore Trump not despite his grotesque stupidity, total ignorance, and utterly vile personality but precisely because of all these attributes, which enable Trump supporters to feel validated. He is just as they are, only in Technicolor. Even as the USA collapses into becoming a dictatorship they'll still think Trump is a "smart & stable genius" and that all the horrors that are about to crush the USA will always and forever be someone else's fault - probably those damn' liberal Hispanic-loving pet-eating pointy-heads wat don' even speak reel gud 'Murkan.