As our country careens toward yet another unnecessary, manufactured crisis around the debt ceiling, we have yet another example of how one of our major parties is doing precisely the opposite of what it knows is right for the country.
Look at the population statistics of Trump's base (the percentage who support him). Then read Snakes in Suits by Babiak & Hare (2006), Chapter 5 and look for their "one-thirds rule". These people were born to support any fraudster who stumbles into power and have saturated the Republican party since the Civil War. Working through the rhyme and reason or the lack thereof in their actions misses the point of their congenital condition. These are not normal people making bad decisions. Your points are well taken and true as true can be but altogether the miss the point. Please stop writing about them as though they were normal people making bad decisions and start thinking about how to neutralize their effect on our democracy. The Founders tried with the Electoral College but that bulwark has since been breached. We need something new based on the latest scientific understanding of this demographic.
Look at the population statistics of Trump's base (the percentage who support him). Then read Snakes in Suits by Babiak & Hare (2006), Chapter 5 and look for their "one-thirds rule". These people were born to support any fraudster who stumbles into power and have saturated the Republican party since the Civil War. Working through the rhyme and reason or the lack thereof in their actions misses the point of their congenital condition. These are not normal people making bad decisions. Your points are well taken and true as true can be but altogether the miss the point. Please stop writing about them as though they were normal people making bad decisions and start thinking about how to neutralize their effect on our democracy. The Founders tried with the Electoral College but that bulwark has since been breached. We need something new based on the latest scientific understanding of this demographic.