In case you’re wondering …

You may have thought this morning as you brewed your coffee, “Wow … what a bad week for the Buffoon-in-Chief. Between publication of that book, and then the shithole remark, his approval ratings must be way down. Maybe,” cross your fingers here, “the Republicans in Congress will start showing some guts.” That’s what an educated, decent-minded adult would think and hope for, allright — if the perversity of his base weren’t taken into account. They’re loving the news that all the educated professionals around him think Trump is crass and a moron, and they’re just fine with his racism.

Yep — Trump’s approval rating has gone up.

Evangelicals know their comfortable little club is dying; many, surely, understand that it’s dying because the Christian narrative is a gaudy and preposterous fiction and they’ve been played for fools. But it’s easier to stick a finger in the eye of the people who are laughing at them than to admit they’ve wasted their lives on nonsense, and so they double-down on their support of Trump and the danger he poses to the country writ large.

They’re going to get worse, a lot worse, before things get better. The world has become a strange place that they don’t — can’t — understand, either technologically or socially,and they now see what most of us regard as progress as an existential threat.

The great irony is that Friedrich Nietzsche, whom they piously hate, saw exactly this coming and his philosophical project was to head-off the nihilism that is now Republican policy.

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