Let me just enumerate -- for benefit of myself as much as anyone looking in -- what I think I've heard and seen since the inauguration and in regards to positions taken by Trump supporters. Many of them have already defected.
But our problem seems to be an electorate component which views political affiliation as a sort of religion. That is the main reason that the "remaining base" can't seem to come around to the notion that Trump's election was a gross and disastrous collective decision.
If I were a physicist with a theory and an agenda of experiments, I'd have to give up my preconceptions -- beliefs -- once sufficient empirical evidence counters my theory.
the hardcore base isn't going to give up their believes on the basis of objective indications, because their politics is a religion, as opposed to the pursuit of practical common sense.
Here's an example of something that might clarify this thought. Trumpies and the GOP advocate the notion of a free market unbridled by government regulation. Meanwhile, the typical competitive businessman, in that free-market scenario, reaps his profits in a process that economists had called "Day's Theorem." They are all the while making incremental adjustments to their business practice as new information about prices and quantities flows into their hands on a daily basis. That behavior is totally different from clinging to a disastrous political choice because it's "your religion."
But our problem seems to be an electorate component which views political affiliation as a sort of religion. That is the main reason that the "remaining base" can't seem to come around to the notion that Trump's election was a gross and disastrous collective decision.
If I were a physicist with a theory and an agenda of experiments, I'd have to give up my preconceptions -- beliefs -- once sufficient empirical evidence counters my theory.
the hardcore base isn't going to give up their believes on the basis of objective indications, because their politics is a religion, as opposed to the pursuit of practical common sense.
Here's an example of something that might clarify this thought. Trumpies and the GOP advocate the notion of a free market unbridled by government regulation. Meanwhile, the typical competitive businessman, in that free-market scenario, reaps his profits in a process that economists had called "Day's Theorem." They are all the while making incremental adjustments to their business practice as new information about prices and quantities flows into their hands on a daily basis. That behavior is totally different from clinging to a disastrous political choice because it's "your religion."