More than 20 percent of Republicans surveyed said certain criminal charges against former President Trump have made them more likely to support him in the 2024 election, according to a new Ipsos po…
I just can't even with this.
About 24 percent of polled Republicans say the charges in the classified documents investigation make them more likely to support Trump, while 21 percent said the same with regard to the 34-count indictment related to falsified business records in a Manhattan court case.
The people who are against me are bad, because I’m a good person.
Trump hates all the people I hate and is a strong male leader, so I follow him.
The only people who would attack him (read: me) are bad people.
People complain and produce false charges when they are afraid of their enemies and need to take them down.
Conclusion: I identify more strongly with Trump for being attacked for being right by bad people.
The sad thing is that, short of taking a mental sledgehammer to some really important internal concepts of self-esteem and value, you can’t stop this train of thought, and you’ll upset them for even suggesting it’s what they think. The closest you can get is putting in their heads the sense that Trump won’t win, in which case they’ll glom onto the next narcissistic, reactionary blowhard.
Yeah, I understand the sequencing. I just can't understand not seeing Trump as a bad person. Or the people who say "I don't like Trump, but I like what he's doing."