Trump supporters gather for the Save America Rally on the Ellipse on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 near the White House in Washington, D.C.. - Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS
My colleague Nicole Russell recently wrote that Republicans turned hard-core MAGA Trump voters are to blame for the persistence of the former president’s poll numbers. Like true fanatics, they have proven themselves incapable of accepting even valid criticisms of the once and former president, all in service to their bizarre addiction. They have been “conned by one of the best,” she explained, acting “more like a committed cult” than a political party. She isn’t wrong. The lengths to which some members of the political right have gone to justify the misdeeds of their leader is mindboggling, ev...
