Trump supporters' cultish devotion shocks rival GOP operatives:  'Nothing could move them'

Former President Donald Trump never delivered on his top 2016 campaign promise to build a wall along the United States-Mexico border.

However, the Washington Post reports that Trump's Republican rivals were unable to take advantage of this because Trump supporters had already concocted wild excuses for why he had failed to deliver on what he claimed as his top priority.

Specifically, the Post reports that a Republican operative for a rival campaign described the results of a focus group in which Trump supporters were confronted with his failure to build the wall, only to have one woman claim that "Trump intentionally didn’t finish the barrier so that migrants would bottleneck in the gaps and be easy to detain there."

This development left the GOP consultant who worked on the focus group exasperated.

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“How do you engage with that level of creativity in finding a way to excuse Trump?” they told the Post. “Nothing could move them.”

And this consultant wasn't the only one who found that Trump supporters had Israeli-style "Iron Dome" missile shields against negative information about their favorite candidate.

"Ad-makers working with the Club for Growth, one of the top outside spenders in Republican politics, tested a range of tactics that had little to no effect, on issues as diverse as the pandemic to guns," writes the Post. "Attacking Trump for contributing to the rising national debt didn’t move focus group subjects, even those who reported being concerned about the rising national debt."