Why do conservatives fall for Trump? It's because of errors in our thinking and

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9. This is one of several contributing factors: Bewilderment being one of them

When you have always had trouble understanding the world, and you always feel confused by the contradictory messages spewed on "news" shows, something snaps, and you just cling to the one you can understand: The bumper-sticker slogan that immediately relieves your inner frustration with the world and yourself:

Just like schrub: You identify with the one who tells you it's OK to feel the way you do: Resentful, angry, self-righteous, whatever. Anyone who offers you the simple, one-step relief from your bewilderment and channels your anger wins, details are irrellevant.

The left gives long, foreign-sounding oblique, opaque answers that are not satisfying. They only contribute to the confusion and bewliderement. They may be the honest answer, because nothing is simple in the 21st century. But they are not able to absorb it, so it (the left) becomes part of that great big cloud of confusin and frustration: The Enemy.

There isn't rational thought, here. It's just an emotional reflex, and therefore, you can't correct it.

We've got to hold on and hope the smarter among us gotv, and the confused stay home. That's it.