Ed Coper

And we want to suspend our rational and reason-based parts in our brain for him to smash the skull of the other guy.

So we know it's fake when we're watching it in a wrestling context.

And in a political context, we know it's not true, but we don't care.

It's a tribal thing.

There was this great experiment that these researchers did in America where they showed a photo of Trump's 2016 inauguration crowd next to Obama's 2008 inauguration crowd.

Now, there are clearly far less people in the Trump photo than the Obama photo.

It is empirical visual fact that anyone with eyes can see.

And all of the Republican voters, when asked which photo has more people in it, they answer the Trump one.

They know it's not true.

That's the kayfabe.

That's their guy.

That's the team.

We suspend all of our rational and reason-based parts when we are our tribal, you know, in-group based creatures.

And what is politics?

It's a tribal in-group.

It's a team.

He is in the WWE Hall of Fame, the Wrestling Hall of Fame.

He's literally in that.

He is literally in the Hall of Fame.

And he would host the WWE events in Trump Tower and his casinos and venues.