For some time it has baffled me how so many Americans can adhere to the positions, proclamations and averments of Donald Trump, most of which are false, and which, if made purposely, are lies, and, if made unconcernedly, are bullshit, under the definition advanced in Harry Frankfurt’s essay “On Bullshit.”
The explanation for how approximately 30% of Americans can be so consumed by Trump’s frequently febrile, increasingly detached exhortations and practices may be found in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theory of stupidity.