In Trump Era, Many Political Activists Follow Their Leader, Not Their Principles

I think this article is largely true. It is very difficult, once you have picked sides, to come back and objectively EVALUATE the policies your side is proposing. Because then, if you find you disagree with your own side's policy, you don't get that brain reward. Instead, you feel frustrated.

Well, yeah. We've been electing people for personality rather than issues for a very long time now.

I have often wondered if I should simply respond to propaganda such as this with my first reaction or a more considered opinion. The passion of the reaction is more honest, more compelling. The considered opinion makes me seem more reasonable but who the hell pays attention to reason anymore, certainly not those who hide behind the sobriquet "Reason". So tell me, if the Trump Administration is proving how the party gets behind their leader, how does that square with the GOP members of Congress organizing to oppose him? How does that square with the infighting occurring within the White House? And when you begin throwing around statistics, where is the intelligent analysis? Let's accept "Four years ago, during the Obama presidency, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found that just 22 percent of Republicans supported a missile strike to stop Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's use of chemical weapons against his own people. But a poll taken after Donald Trump ordered air strikes for the same reason found that 86 percent of Republicans supported it." So what? Don't you think that just maybe the gas attack on innocent civilians might have something to do with this shift? Well, there I go again, trying to be reasonable. I am such a fool. Let me just go with "Bull shit!"