Trump Supporters Are Feeling a Mental and Emotional Pinch

In the note at left Robert Reich reminds us that Trump’s supporters must be under great emotional stress to take this man seriously.  Every day brings us new adventures in complete insanity.

As we all learned in Psych 101, cognitive dissonance is the uncomfortable phenomenon that occurs when a person holds two contradictory beliefs at the same time. Unless you have the intelligence of a jellyfish, you cannot simultaneously believe a) that Donald Trump is an honorable man who is making America great again, and b) that he is actively obstructing justice by pardoning his supporters for the crimes of which they have been convicted.