>and shoot someone, and they’d still cheer for him and proudly declare it the victims fault.
except for those who happens to be that "someone" who got shot and immediately stops cheering then while getting very confused and sorry for themselves.
Watch the interviews with the Trump voters who got recently laid off by Trump & Douche, err... Doge.
In my experience people will vent and complain and then just return to the previous normal. In some cases it's still mentally 'easier' to go back than to reassess fundamental beliefs.
These anecdotes however are few and far between. With a federal worker there's pretty obviously "nowhere to hide the bodies" - Trump came in, fired a bunch of federal workers. If you were a fired federal worker, it's impossible to read that any other way.
With something less direct, like losing your job during a recession? There's still plausible deniability that it's Biden's fault, because headlines like "Economists suggest <thing Trump did> might have triggered a recession" is too abstract and far removed from their own lived experience.
We now have a potential deputy secretary of defense who is too scared to acknowledge the objective fact that Russia invaded Ukraine [1] because that gets people ostracized by their cult. We are fucked when government officials can't govern unless pretending the emperor is clothed. This is Salinist/Maoist levels of fuckery. They will happily lie to their sheep with a straight face knowing that they will lap it up as the truth.
except for those who happens to be that "someone" who got shot and immediately stops cheering then while getting very confused and sorry for themselves.
Watch the interviews with the Trump voters who got recently laid off by Trump & Douche, err... Doge.