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I understand how people who directly benefit from corruption like Kelly can act like this, but I don't understand how anyone else can watch this happen and not be repulsed.
In-groups to protect, out-groups to bind. Many people consider themselves part of the in-group that the GOP represents. They get like a chemical high when their group wins, and a existential pain when they're not winning. They even feel bad if someone else is winning in a way that doesn't affect them, because they think in zero-sum terms.
They're bad people. Ideals we hold up like fairness and justice don't matter to them. All they care about is their tribe winning.
Maybe I should take it as a comfort that I can't relate to bad people?
But it's so hard not to feel dread and disbelief that there are so. Many! Bad people.