It must be challenging to be a supporter of the current Republican candidate for U.S. president. For months you’ve been led to believe that your candidate is strong, in command, on top of things.
And then you somehow need to reckon with your candidate spouting nutty conspiracy theories about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs, weirdly obsessing over crowd sizes, talking about having “concepts of a plan” for health care, and claiming that newborn babies in the U.S. are being summarily executed right out of the womb.
For months your candidate has been telling you that his opponent is “dumb”. Yet you witness that opponent in a debate not only articulating clear policy positions, but also effortlessly running rings around your candidate. Watching her was like watching Cassius Clay in his prime putting away a washed up old boxer.
It must be difficult, under such circumstances, to keep the faith. Faith can be hard to sustain in the face of cold hard evidence.