Infallibility

Like millions of other people, I've been trying to understand how Trump keeps on being president. In recent news, two people have lost their jobs because, essentially, they said something stupid, insensitive, and politically incorrect for today's cultural climate--to me, it seems that taking away someone's livelihood is a pretty severe action to take because of simply spoken words, and certainly shouldn't be taken lightly, but I don't decide these things. I just wonder how these guys can lose their jobs for saying one thing, but Trump says things just as stupid and offensive and insensitive two or three times a week, week after week, month after month, and he still has HIS job.

So, ran across these Facebook groups and if you will notice, in both cases it seems that Trump enjoys the perception of a certain almost religious infallibility, along the lines of those obnoxious "God said it, I believe it, that settles it." bumper stickers we all know and love. Notice the bottom picture, where it says, "No matter what."  No shit, apparently.




I am just wondering if we are all underestimating the power of the Religious Far Right in all this. Being fundamentalists by nature (I think) they certainly have already demonstrated their ability to muster and maintain the staggering amounts of cognitive dissonance necessary to support Trump's words and actions, so it becomes obvious that nothing we "liberals" or Democrats or reasoning people in general say or do is ever going to change their minds, but only solidify their weird, unreasonable loyalty to Trump.