They know that without the cult they lack the numbers to win any election. They, and their positions, are so frail that they bend knee to the absolute worst humanity has to offer for a chance to feel like they aren't as neutered as they really are. They can't even just let the Trump boot-lickers fade away, those willful idiots will just not vote - they have to win the scared racist vote, they need the wheezing Nazis, they can't survive without the religious who have turned away from their god for Trump.
It's fear, weakness and desperation. It is more sad than insane. Sad and dangerous.
Eh, I don't know about that path. They are already an army of small-dick energy, I can't fathom the power levels they reach by further reducing their sense of manliness.
The "respect" was nothing more than him being an opportunist in regards to a national tragedy. He was always this person - it just took a while for people to see it.
It goes a lot deeper than that. Education is a really, really huge issue in America. And sadly these idiots don't just exist, they are created and cultivated by those who seek to use them - and use them they do.
Yes but that change affected anyone in school at the time as well. No Child Left Behind touched the schooling of people up to the age of 38. That's roughly half of Americans. You would need to remove people not of voting age, but the impact is still huge.
Is science a process or a world-view? That fact you apparently can't tell the difference is the problem here.