Views from Crestmont Drive

• A neuroscientist on why Trump loyalists are unbreakable;
• Why the astronomer Owen Gingerich saw God in the Cosmos;
• How Heather Cox Richardson dismantles the Republican charges that the DOJ is “weaponized” to take down Donald Trump.

So why does a megalomaniac would-be dictator like Trump have so many fans? (Especially so many who consider themselves Christians?) I’m always open to explanations, though I have plenty of provisional ones.

AlterNet, Bobby Azarian, 12 Jun 2023: Opinion | Why loyalty to Donald Trump is often unbreakable: neuroscientist

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Items today:

• 12m people support violence to keep Trump in office;
• Kari Lake threatens violence to keep Trump in office;
• Florida wants immigrants to stay and work, despite the state’s anti-immigrant policies;
• Families in Florida who feel unsafe are leaving the state;
• DeSantis posts fake videos about Trump and Fauci;
• Heather Cox Richardson quotes Chip Roy about Republican priorities that they are not actually enacting;
• Obit of Pat Robertson, who lent a looney-tunes, deeply superstition, aspect to the religious right;
• And in contrast with all of the above, Fareed Zakaria on how American’s foundational strength enables it to withstand such fringe loonies;
• And concluding thoughts.

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