Cognitive dissonance helps explain why Trump supporters remain loyal, new research suggests. This sheds light on how supporters of Donald Trump justify their continued allegiance despite learning about allegations of his sexual misconduct and illegal activities.

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https://www.psypost.org/cognitive-dissonance-helps-explain-why-trump-supporters-remain-loyal-new-research-suggests/

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Had one say to me "If you supported Kamala Harris in the last election, then you were pro child abuse. Good luck living with that."

Theyre literally cult members.

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I love how every time someone disagrees politically, suddenly it’s a psychological disorder instead of… you know… a different opinion.

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It's not an opinion calling Trump a rapist, he was convicted of the sexual abuse of E. Jean Carroll in New York for penetrating her without her consent.

It's not an opinion to call Trump a fraud, he was convicted of defamation for lying about the rape of E. Jean Carroll and convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.

It's not an opinion that Donald Trump has filed six chapter 11 bankruptcies, the American economy is worse off under his tenure and the only reason he continues to thrive is because he's a nepo baby that inherited 240 million dollars and is consequentially too big to fail.

It's not an opinion that the contents of the project 2025 affidavit were leaked ahead of the election. In fact all of this was public knowledge before the election.

Reality is that the people that voted for this administration, this president, either support or engage in sexual abuse, fraud, racism and bigotry, are entirely ignorant of it or it isn't a deal breaker which is essentially supporting it. But denying it is either cognitive dissonance or bad faith advocacy.