Because Trump rode into town on the road paved after decades of political partisans rationalizing the lies of their respective tribe.
I read this as the reason conservatives voted for the biggest lying scumbag in American political history Is because decades of Republicans lying to themselves that both sides are equal in lying gave them moral permission to do so. Notice the Democrats have, after all of those decades and the most recent massive PoS liar yet, have nominated a man any independent political fact-checked will show to be a very normal politician where the truth is concerned.
it is only in Altered Reality Crazy Town conservative thinking this kind bo both sides delusional thinking provides such immoral self justification.
Furthermore, this comports with peer review neuroscience proof that conservative more so than liberals are like this. You are aware of this fact, are you not. I have hammered it home on this forum countless times, and often enough with the promise that while scientifically proven, conservatives, like so many other facts they find damaging to their egos, will not hear it. They more than liberals have brains wired to avoid bad news for their egos. Both sides to a degree. on one side, however the degree amounts to insanity.
what you do is lie to yourself and project everyone else does the same to the same degree. But no matter how hard you try or deny, you will not alter the reality of people more willing to face painful truth.
For example, you probably also want to deny that you cling to the comfort your biased assumptions paint your ego in a positive light is because you desperately need to, in fact because you actually feel you are the worst person in the world. Had you no need to deny that then seeing how horribly you judge others by how horribly you feel would be a piece of cake.
What your denial does for you is to prevent self awareness. That creates the blindness that allows you to see only others as the ones with your problems. Then your contempt for them strengthens and keeps your self contempt from any healthy impulse to ease because of the inability to forgive. The less you forgive others insures your own unconscious misery. You have been forgiven because you had to buy lies to survive and surviving is a good thing so you really weren’t guilty of anything. But you don’t need to lie any more. Time to awaken. Everything you fear already happened and is simply repressed. You were always worthy of love. Let it all go. Baby steps........