Why Do Trump Supporters Continue to Stand By This Lawless, Lying President? This Psychologist Explains
5/18/202614 min
In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by Dr. Cindy Harmon-Jones to discuss her new study about the cognitive dissonance of Trump supporters, and what it would take for them to abandon the MAGA cult.
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[ding] Do you ever wonder what's going on inside the heads of Trump supporters? He gets a giant golden statue at Mar-a-Lago, compares himself to Jesus Christ, takes America to war in Iran after promising his base he'd be anti-war, and now says he doesn't think about the financial situations of Americans, quote, "even a little bit." And yet, his supporters continue to blindly cheer him on. How do they justify it? How do they continue to stand by this lawless, lying president in clear mental decline? My guest today conducted an academic study to try and answer that very question. Joining me now is Dr. Cindy Harmon-Jones, a senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at Western Sydney University. Uh, Cindy, thanks so much for joining us on the show. Uh, you began this study of Trump supporters, I believe, back in 2019, two months before Trump was impeached for the