This is long, and convoluted- but the ugly Gordian knot of the MAGA mind is not untangled easily....

Remember how conservatives were outraged when we pointed out that Trump was blatantly appealing to white supremacists? How they denied the facts and defended Trump saying they saw no racism. Make no mistake, they saw and recognized the racism that supported the Trump campaign, they knew what he was doing as well as we did. So WHY did they deny what was so plainly obvious?

You might suspect they honestly believed that Trump and his movement were untouched by racism, completely innocent of the charges. You would be dangerously naive to fall for that explanation. Certainly a few of them, the most uninformed, the most unaware, the most gullible- MIGHT have honestly believed Trump was not openly courting neo-nazis and white supremacists, but they were just a tiny minority among his base. For the vast majority the facts were just as clear to them as they were to us.

So, they were lying when they defended Trump against the charges of racism- and the vast majority of them KNEW they were lying - WHY?

Another naive explanation is that they were trying to convince us to believe the lies, or to gaslight us. Certainly the protestations of innocence coming out of the campaign and the white house were an attempt to gaslight the public and media, but the 'gaslighting' explanation doesn't explain the laughable defenses we saw from Trump supporters in interviews, in online discussion forums, on facebook.

Were these rank and file MAGA-minions trying to convince us that the lies they parroted were true? No- that was not their intent either. They knew their defenses were full of holes, contradicted by the facts, and by the very words out of Trump's mouth. In fact they quickly learned any defense they offered would soon be undermined days or hours later by Trump himself, so they quickly learned to stop offering any argument in defense of Trump, and resorted to simply dismissing the facts and mocking those that pointed out the facts.

So, their defenses of Trump are lies. They KNOW they are lies. They are NOT spouting the lies in an effort to convince us the lies are true.

So WHY do they do they so fervently and publicly lie when they don't believe it and they know we won't believe them?

What you need to understand about these pathetic creatures is that they support Trump BECAUSE he is openly racist, BECAUSE he is a bully. They are weak petty people that get a THRILL seeing others bullied and abused by 'their guy' in 'their name'. They are not happy with their lot in life. But by supporting Trump they ensure that other less fortunate people are publicly abused and demeaned and made to suffer more... and in their minds if others can be made to suffer more, then that means 'THEY'- The MAGA mob- are winning by comparison.

For the most part they know themselves well enough to understand that this is what motivates them. They also understand these motivations are petty, ugly and evil- they know that for their entire lives such motivations were socially unacceptable. Decent people don't act like this.

So we get to the real reason they lie- it isn't that they believe the lies, nor do they hope to get us to believe the lies. No, they lie in an effort to convince us that they really do believe the lies.

The alternative would be to admit the truth, the truth that they are nothing more than small petty bigoted wannabe bullies. It is not socially acceptable to admit that. Not YET it isn't.

Their hope is that it someday they can openly express these ugly evil desires without fear or shame, and in Trump they see a 'man' working to ensure that day comes soon. They want to see their sickness normalized, they want to display their pathology openly without shame. THIS is their motivation and they KNOW deep down that its what drives their support for Trump. THIS is why they they regurgitate obvious lies in his defense- PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY, buying time until they can admit their abhorrent views without shame. Until that day comes they will claim they don't see the racism, that they do not believe the crimes, that they only support Trump because they believe he will 'Make America Great Again'.

Take a second look at the MAGA moron in your facebook feed- have you seen them proudly proclaiming with a giggle that they are one of the "Deplorables"? They are trying to normalize it... testing the waters to see if their time has come yet.

The thing is, they haven't really thought this all through to its logical conclusion. They haven't really considered what it will mean for them, their children, their grand-children if they succeed in demeaning and degrading our nation, bringing it down to their level. They blithely assume they will come out on top in such a world- they cannot see the obvious fact that they will be one of its first victims. They will never even acknowledge the harm that will come to them as a result- As long as they get to see others being victimized more, they will consider themselves the 'winners'.

It is petty, evil people like this that, more than any others, enable fascism. People that are unsatisfied with their lot in life, but can be placated if they see that others are suffering more.

They really ARE deplorable, and- if we are to survive as a nation- being deplorable must always be a shameful thing.