What Robert De Niro says here is largely correct; most of Trump’s supporters are intellectually inferior to the U.S. population at large.
This is not universally true, however. There are plenty of brilliant minds who will stand behind him to the very end. These people with profound moral defects.
Imagine loving money so much that, in order to make your next billion dollars, you approve of a criminal sociopath who:
• Launches a useless and illegal war that cripples the American economy, committing a vast array of war crimes in the process.
• Gets away with attempting to overthrow the U.S. federal government.
• Cuts healthcare from tens of millions of our citizens.
• Attacks the U.S. educational system.
• Removes dozens of environmental regulations.
• Supports Big Oil by destroying the clean energy industry.
• Kills vaccine requirements, paving the way for the next pandemic.
• Works to insert Christianity into our schools.
• Allows homeless veterans to die of treatable diseases.
This is moral bankruptcy.
In a better world, the International Criminal Court would have much greater power to prosecute war crimes.
Today, winding up at The Hague requires terrible luck, and it’s virtually impossible to happen to a Donald Trump or a Pete Hegseth, given the enormous military might that the United States possesses.
Contrast this to what happened to Slobodan Milošević, who was arrested when his countries, Yugoslavia and Serbia, were overthrown.
The prediction made here is nearly certain to come true.
The question is what happens at the point. E.g., how long does it take to rebuild trade deals and relationships with allies?
Keep in mind that regardless of the manner in which Trump loses power, there will always be “news” outlets like Fox and Newsmax, trying their best to convince the idiots that Trump was hounded and persecuted by the communists who hate America.
All I can say about the me here is that personally I refused, against considerable pressure from my family, to indoctrinate my children into something I myself could not accept.
Is it actually “psychological abuse” to indoctrinate children into monotheistic religion? Whether to take it that far is an open question.
My parents, both atheists, sent my brother and me to Sunday School, as they thought it wrong to cut us off from a modality of growing up in America in the early 1960s. I don’t blame them, but again, it’s not something I was willing to replicate with my own children.
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