I don't think it's beneficial to call his supporters stupid..... even though it's become seemingly easy to do...
I knew a lot of these posters before they supported Trump lock step, and they were not stupid...
I view it more like he's put some sort of 'spell' on them, as crazy as that sounds... an expert brainwashing...
I didn't call "his supporters stupid". Rather, I called it a monument to stupidity to claim, "We're the party of Lincoln, therefore we cannot possibly be racist", and to believe they can get away with that bullshit.
Moreover, I am convinced, untrammeled hatred and racism make people stupid. Not to mention, ugly.
Remember when, in 2007, an almost unanimous Congress reauthorized the Voting Rights Act, the crown jewel of the civil rights legislation? A few years later, under President Obama, you couldn't find two Republicans voting for its restoration after the Roberts court torched it, and Goobers up and down the country were giddy about it. That's the rot that spread through right-wing Washington and the rightarded portion of the electorate, even while they still tried to hide it, and keep some manners. That changed with Trump, who gleefully cut the last remaining leashes.
That, I believe, is the entirety of the "spell": Obama being elected President, and eight years of being President while black, pushed them right up to the brink, and, with Trump, they resolutely moved ahead. Ever since, hatred, and the stupidity inevitably accompanying it, spread like wildfire after years without a drop of rain.
Is it beneficial to point this out? I patently don't know. I am pretty sure, though, hiding facts is not.