"My brother is almost 90, a Repub for years, and a committed Trumpie from the beginning. He knows he is looking at his sunset and will die a Trumpie. He dismisses, rationalizes, or denies every critical fact about Trump. No fact, no failure, nor any reversal of policy by any court causes him pause. He only watches FOX. He has successfully alienated his wife, two very adult children, siblings, relatives, and friends who are not Trumpies."
"His MAGA madness was funny for years, then one day it wasn't. There was no one thing that turned us away. It was the cumulative, exhausting immensity and impenetrable Trump Bubble that one day quietly turned us away. Poof! Gone! The mood now is that he will die and tragically never see what he has wrought. He will die blaming liberalism, the media, Democrats, immorality, atheism, Obama, Biden, abortion, immigrants, and 'Black thugs.'"
A nearly 90-year-old Republican became an unwavering Trump supporter and expects to die identified as such. He dismisses, rationalizes, or denies every critical fact about Trump, and court reversals or failures do not cause him pause. He watches only FOX and has alienated his wife, two adult children, siblings, relatives, and friends who are not Trump supporters. His MAGA fervor shifted from comic to troubling. The cumulative, exhausting intensity of the Trump-aligned information environment drove family members away. He will likely die blaming liberalism, the media, Democrats, and various social groups.
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