One really has to wonder what is going on when we consider some of the crackpots and loons in public life who support and worship Trump!!
Case in point:
Jim Bakker: Making Fun Of Trump Is The 'Spirit Of The Antichrist' | HuffPost
The “spirit of the Antichrist” is alive and well and living inside people who dare to mock President Donald Trump, disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker said.
Bakker now sells survivalist food and gear to doomsday preppers on his “Jim Bakker Show.” In a clip from Thursday that was posted online by Right Wing Watch, he claimed there was a “hatred among peoples and this is satanic.”
Then he went full “Sleepy Hollow” on his audience:
“This is the White Horse of the Apocalypse. The White Horse of the Apocalypse is the first horse. It’s a horse of speech. It’s a horse of spirit. And the spirit of Antichrist is out now. This is what you’re seeing. You want to know what the Antichrist spirit looks like? That’s what’s going on in America. These people mocking the president, the words they use, the speech they use, that’s the spirit of Antichrist. That’s the spirit of hatred.”
No, not the white horse of the apocalypse.......It the white HOUSE of the apocalypse. This sort of thing also speaks volumes about who his "base" is and what the average Trump voter believes. Here is more:
‘Prophets’ Say Trump Knows God Got Him Elected, Pray To Expose Leakers | Right Wing Watch
Frank Amedia, the Trump-supporting “prophet” who hosted the POTUS Shield gathering in Ohio earlier this month, told participants that President Trump acknowledged to him that God is responsible for his election:
I said to the man’s own face, ‘If you didn’t see God got you elected, with all the mistakes you made, and how you should have lost this election 50 times, then you will never see God.’ And he said, ‘I know it was God.’
And finally, one more.... for now:
Tony Perkins: Trump Is ‘God-Given Opportunity To Reshape America In His Image’ | Right Wing Watch
The letter from FRC Action President Tony Perkins warns of “five ways the ‘Progressives’ have intensified the war on your values and freedoms”:
1. Igniting an explosion of propaganda sold to Americans as “news.”
2. Destroying public trust and spreading confusion by spreading “fake news.”
3. Unleashing lawless radicals in the streets and town meetings.
4. Maintaining a shadow government working against the American government.
5. Coordinating and unifying the falsehood and disruption.
Yes I know. I will be accused of being hateful and spreading fear and loathing. But folks, I'm not making this stuff up and anyone who does not think that these people are batshit crazy has to have a few screws loose themselves.
As an unaffiliated voter, I think I can shed some light on this for you. Very few people actually love the big orange clown. The same way that very few people actually loved the pantsuit bulldyke. The reality is those people who pick a side, either democrat or republican, become loyal to that side, and will support the leader of that party almost blindly. They argue for, and justify any and all actions of their party leader. We saw it in spades during the election from the democrats with respect to Hellary. The republicans were slower to the game because their nominee was not handed the nomination the way the Dems handed to Hellary.
Here's another little tidbit for you- the people who are party affiliated can rarely see this dynamic occurring, because as I said, they are blindly loyal to their party.
WELL, WELL! An actual reasonable post from you. ! However, I disagree. Not all affiliated people, perhaps not even most are blindly loyal. I supported Clinton, not because I thought that she is squeaky clean but because the alternative- as we are seeing- is far worse. You are mistaking a commitment to a candidate as blind loyalty, and as such, you're selling a lot of people short and not giving them credit for actually thinking about what they are doing. I sometimes expressed concern or disappointment with Clinton and Obama but because of the extreme and polarized nature of current politics, I could not abandon them
If you want to paint any group as blindly loyal, it should be trump supporters. It should be clear to anyone wit a brain that a lot of his policies will screw his core supporters but they seem to not know it or don't care .
And none of this explains the bizarre and delusional loons that I showcased in the OP and why his base laps that shit up like a thirsty dog in heat- other than BLIND LOYALTY.