Trump Republicans have now reached the point where no matter how absurd and far-fetched their latest harangues become, they must be defended at all costs lest the Libs score a victory.

Under no circumstances must a Lib be allowed to score a win, or a Con be seen to suffer a verbal defeat in debate.

Like the religious fundamentalists of my Southern Baptist school days, not even the slightest molecule of Darwinian logic be allowed to survive unchallenged lest the entire Biblical Creationist idea come tumbling down like house of cards.

If the Haitians aren't barbecuing household pets, then Trump and Vance must be mistaken, and if they are wrong about one thing, then nothing they say can be believed! The lie must be maintained at all costs or the whole fantasy comes crashing down in apocalyptic fury. No matter how ridiculous, how absurd, the forces of orthodoxy must rally and push the lie ahead to its ultimate conclusion.

There's a lot in common between Trumpist Conservatism and North American rural Christian fundamentalism. I recall one Christian explaining to me how God placed fossils in the ground in the appropriate rock strata just to test our faith and belief in Scripture. Or how human footprints have been found alongside dinosaur footprints.

Another example, when the Ukrainians refused to be blackmailed into providing fake political evidence against the Bidens, suddenly the brave struggle against an evil Putin morphed into a noble Russian invasion of a corrupt neo-Nazi Ukrainian dictatorship. Anything goes to save the phenomenon. In this case, the forces of darkness are descending on poor Springfield before the word gets out that Trump didn't fact check his own copy.