It’s Not a Movement: It’s a Market driftglass

… Because to admit that they’re wrong — even a little bit — is to admit the possibility that everyone they have trusted for decades really has been a liar and a fraud. That they really have been played for chumps all along. That the Dirty Libtards may have been (gasp!) right about them all along.

And that revelation would destroy them, which is why it must-must-must be kept at bay at any cost. Which is why they hired Donald Trump. He’s not their “leader” — he’s just the most brazen pusher of the lies they need to believe. This is also why their ludicrous and ever-changing “talking points” don’t need to make any sense or follow any ideological consistency: they just need to be shouted long enough to keep Reality from crashing in on them for one more day. …