Not stupid. Not brainwashed.

They voted for someone who demonstrates who they want to be.

Donald Trump is a confession. No matter how they gild themselves with piety and principles, not matter what authority they conjure with, this is, at the core, what they imagine to be the correct use of power, and the correct application of authority. It’s how they would act if they if they could.

They enjoy these displays of incontinence because nothing matters, nothing is true, outside their sense of gratification, and Trump is their proxy.