Like a toddler on his third line of coke, Trump insists that he won the last election. Even everyday Republicans insist that it is better to assuage his hurt feelings than to protect our democracy. Trump. A reality TV star who lost hundreds of millions of dollars and failed in all of his ventures until he took a TV role playing a successful businessman. (How big a failure? From the mid-1980s to mid-1990s he lost $1.2 billion. Year after year his losses were more than that of any other American. He was - literally - America's biggest loser while projecting an image as a successful business mogul. Sad.) He convinced a lot of Americans he won at business last century. And then he convinced a lot of Americans that he won an election in 2020. The word you're looking for is con man.
In 2020 he actually won in the former confederacy by 3 million votes but lost in the rest of the country by 10 million votes. The word you're looking for is loser.
The Republican Party is his now and a lot of Americans are thrilled with that. But there is a real problem with aligning with leaders who deny reality, who insist that you share their delusions. Look at North Korea, for instance, where everyone is aligned with Kim Jong Un's fantasy about the the world and his place in it. It takes the North Koreans all year to make as much as South Koreans make by mid-January. Delusions, like drugs, may make you feel warm and cozy but they actually make your reality worse, not better.
On a related note, a huge swath of Americans believe that a secret cabal is controlling the government. If you're in that group - and there is apparently a 44% chance you are - you may want to do a little soul searching about your preference for delusion over simply confronting reality.
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