Tara Palmieri

When Trump came on the scene, we could trace this back to when Trump came on the scene in the very first incident in Access Hollywood that took place on that bus and what he said, I thought for sure that was the end, that that would be the line where most people, let alone Christians who

taught me for years that it was all about integrity.

And I thought, well, that's going to be the line.

And then what I realized is that wasn't the line and it moved again.

And then I thought, okay, well, January 6th, that's got to be the line for many of these folks.

And turns out January 6th wasn't a line.

And then you have racist video recently.

Oh, that's got to be the line.

Epstein files.

That's got to be the line.

And Don, what I think I'm coming to realize here, there isn't a line.

Like there isn't a line.

And I think what's happening now, psychologists talk about this as identity fusion.

I just call it attachment.

But it's the idea that there are some who have become indistinguishable from their political leader, party, ideology.

And what that tells me is this is no longer an issue of information anymore.

This is an issue of identity and an issue of attachment.

And what I mean by that is if scandals arise like Epstein, like a racist video, like whatever, name the scandal, instead of being able to step outside of it and look at it and say, oh, this is wrong.

they're unable to step outside of it because they are indistinguishable from it.

They're attached to it.