Crash Course: Trump is degenerating before our eyes — MAGA voters don't notice or don't care

GOP base is now so consumed by incoherent QAnon babble that Trump's obvious deterioration doesn't even register. 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Now he often sounds like a methhead trying to explain how gravity works to a dog. No, it's not just that Trump's own intellectual baseline is so low. It's that Republican voters have lost the ability to notice when someone isn't making sense, having fried their minds on right-wing propaganda. 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