It's truly exhausting trying to make sense of the nonsense. I have a fundamentalist Christian friend that I've only known through social media. In a recent exchange, he told me that he could never vote for a Democrat because the party stripped the platform of any mention of God. I asked him how he feels about his party stripping needy people of programs that help them such as the ACA and Medicaid. I asked him if it was God-inspired to give huge tax breaks to the wealthy and pay for them with a reduction in help to those in need. He won't respond. 

My bike rides often take me through rural areas about 40 miles south of Minneapolis where there's nothing but farmland for tens of miles. While there are still some remnants of the Trump era, they're mostly gone now. I'll occasionally see a Trump flag that's been tattered almost beyond recognition, but now, I'm more likely to see a FJB bumper sticker. I have no doubt that the flags will be back as we head into primary season. It floors me that there's anything above 1-2% support for a guy who tried to overturn our democracy. But as you said, Reg, they don't believe it, and the only thing that will change their minds is for conservative media to level with them and allow them to begin the process of rebuilding their shattered world. But that's never going to happen.

I get the sense that we're going to have to die our way out of this—that the older generation which holds so tightly to their god, their guns, and their propaganda, will have to die off before we begin to make headway toward a better America. 

Speaking of those rural roads, here's a video from a ride a couple of nights ago. 

Kevin g