The most telling part of all of it was from Trump's first term where they interviewed some one who was upset with Trump and the response was "he isnt hurting the people he is suppose to"
They dont care because they will believe they are the good ones until they are against the wall
They hate what they've been told to hate, and love what they've been told to love. Any similarities or differences between the two are irrelevant to them - they don't even think to look. These aren't people exploring their options and picking what looks best to them, they're just doing what they're told, and thinking they're smarter for it.
Seems likely it's similar. Aquote from a book I think everyone should read has been stuck in my head for years:
In the years of its rise the movement little by little brought the community’s attitude toward the teacher around from respect and envy to resentment, from trust and fear to suspicion. The development seems to have been inherent; it needed no planning and had none. As the Nazi emphasis on nonintellectual virtues (patriotism, loyalty, duty, purity, labor, simplicity, “blood,” “folk-ishness”) seeped through Germany, elevating the self-esteem of the “little man,” the academic profession was pushed from the very center to the very periphery of society. Germany was preparing to cut its own head off.
By 1933 at least five of my ten friends (and I think six or seven) looked upon “intellectuals” as unreliable and, among these unreliables, upon the academics as the most insidiously situated.
Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
I wouldn't put my dick in anything that could potentially conceive ever again. I don't want kids. My genes suck, I'm poor, the world is going to shit and there's no 100% guaranteed birth control method. Why would I even take that risk at that point?
It's easier to gun down people when you don't have the mental facilities to think twice about it. There's a reason morons and idiots always end up infesting authoritarian regimes.
"Surely the leopard won't eat our faces," thought the women. "We're white and Christian after all." But what they never knew was that their Messiah didn't care.
Sadly, the cult followers aren't intelligent enough to know what they're promoting. You could put his face on any slogan and they'd wear it, stick it on their truck or hang it from their house.
Why are they so god damn stupid? I mean it, these people are the stupidest, dumbest, most idiotic morons I've ever had the displeasure of coexisting with. Jesus Christ...
Democracy is increasingly unpopular because the people who broke it say it can’t possibly work
well put. and the people who broke it did so because they insist it never works (for them); it not working - for them - is actual evidence that democracy is functioning. They simply cannot accept that their ideas are bad, their platform polarizing, their attempts at reassurance outright ghoulish (only a day one dictatorship, it can be bloodless if the left lets it happen, etc.,) - and since they can't have their way with a popular vote, they'll choose tyranny, no debate, no hesitation.
Exactly. I’m firmly convinced that this is the ultimate goal of decades of Republican obstructionism. They get what they want or nothing happens. And what they want is never helpful and they don’t actually do much of what they do want when they can. Repeal and replace never happened. They just obstructed. How many people decided after that that democracy can’t work? I do not believe newt Gingrich believes in a republican or democratic system of governance. He wants a fucking oligarchy or dictatorship. As has all who followed him.
Republicans really do not give a shit about democracy. They're absolutely fine with the idea of a dictatorship, as long as they think it'll benefit them and hurt the people they hate.
When you start to understand this, a lot of what they do makes sense. It's why they were fine with McConnell refusing to confirm a supreme court nominee in the last year of Obama's presidency but cheerfully confirming one in the last year of Trump's term. They know its hypocritical, and they applaud it. To them, this is what "Winning" means; it's about getting their way. That's all that matters.
Considering how often I have heard, "why can't the president just [thing that is not within presidential powers]?!" in my life, I think a lot of people believe presidents already are dictators.