Many voters supporting the former president also rated him as more truthful than their own friends and family

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    Despite Trump’s countless lies, 71 percent of Trump voters believe he is a source of “true” information, beating even their own friends and family, who ranked second with 63 percent.

    We have a term for this in English. It’s called a cult.

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      It was always weird to me how cults worked even with people’s friends and family saying otherwise. But here it is.

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        Years of conditioning from all angles to create an alternate reality. Happens all over the world.