Committed

 I was reading Josh Marshall's report from the debate last night and this line hit me:

They really seem to have thought that Republicans might abandon Trump (to whom Republican voters have committed so much) without them even saying there was anything wrong with him. That’s a remarkable failure of imagination and personal character.

I've been engaging with MAGAts on "X" about the recent summary judgment against Trump, and they are blind to basic facts. Not spinnable facts but the actual concrete facts. The bit in the parenthesis up there is key: "to whom Republican voters have committed so much." 

Donald Trump is a con artist and a person now convicted of multiple acts of fraud in his business dealings. There are committed Christians out there who think Trump is more religious than Biden, when I defy Trump to relate a single New Testament parable or to name 6 of the 10 commandments. There is no factual basis for the adoration of this serial con artist except that line "to whom Republican voters have committed so much."

Con artists survive because no one wants to admit that they were conned. There are tens of millions of Americans who are being presented with abundant evidence of Trump's criminality and the extent to which he lies to his cultists and rejecting it because loving and defending Trump has become part of their personality. 

What mystifies me is that we have polling "evidence" that millions of Americans who have not committed to Cult 45 are thinking about voting for him. I can understand (if hold in contempt) the idea that someone defends Trump despite the mounting evidence of his criminality because you have been doing it for 6 years. What I can't understand is someone coming fresh to Trump - his chaos, his crime, his incoherence - and saying, "Yup, that's what I want in a president."