Trump Supporters Aren't Looking for Evidence. They Look for Your Guilt.
Philip Tetlock, psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, studied what happens when people feel their God, their country, and their leader are under attack. He calls it the intuitive prosecutor mindset. When that switch flips, the brain stops functioning like a judge and starts functioning like a prosecutor. The verdict comes first. The evidence comes second. Information that proves guilt gets amplified. Information that contradicts it gets ignored.
Trump has convinced his followers that their God, their country, and their leader are under attack. All the time. By the same people.
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