David Pakman

Instead, there's some other reason the Federal Reserve screwed us or the NATO countries wouldn't come and help us open the Strait of Hormuz or whatever.

And what this does is it always allows the core belief to stay intact.

It's similar to when these cult leaders

Say doomsday is what was the one April 21st of 2012.

The rapture and then the rapture never comes and people go, oh, well, it sounds like your dear leader was wrong.

No, no, no, no, no.

He was accounting for the Mayan calendar with the wrong offset.

And it turns out that the date is actually different.

We've heard it.

We've heard it before.

And so where you end up is with that kind of cult like framework.

And then you add to that the claim from Trump's some Trump supporters that Trump's not really in control, that there are other forces operating behind the scenes.

Now, we're going to deal with who those forces may be later in the show.

But think about the contradiction that that creates.

Normally, that should break confidence.

If Trump is really in charge, he's responsible if he's not in charge.

Why would you support someone who's not really in charge?

But instead of causing people to go, wait, that doesn't make sense.

Why do I support this guy?

It ends up reinforcing the cult leader because it gives the supporters a way to protect their image of Trump.