The reason that most Trumpsters don't believe that Trump lost the election can be simply explained by: The Emperor's New Clothes Syndrome.
I.e. ... pretending that you see something that isn't really there, so that you won't be ostracized by your friends and neighbors.
Let's go back a step or two to better explain this further.
Some Americans claim Trumpsters' faith in their inspector Clouseau level ex-president is because these Trumpsters are in a cult: The cult of Trump.
The better truth can be found in the Trumpsters learned Tribalism attitudes. Tribalism espouses that in one's own tribe or social group that there is not only a strong loyalty to the group, but a necessary blind faith and loyalty to the tribe's leader.
In Tribalism this faith in their leader is not based on this leader's actions, but in the fact that this leader...well...is the leader.
For instance, say the leader spends most of the tribe's resources on building a damn. When the damn floods half the tribe's fields, the tribe does not condemn this leader. The leader is never at fault. Ever.
Trumpsters living in this tribal manner can't easily go against the tribe. The tribe is Trump. They listen to Trump media (FOX & the gang), they talk Trump with their friends. They shoot up Hillary and Obama targets. From the Republican congressmen & women on down, to question the beliefs of the Trump tribe means ostracization and banishment.
But the emperor isn't wearing any clothes.
It's obvious. He's walking around naked.
The Emperor's New Clothes Syndrome.
You know the truth, but you can't admit it.
Except the one place you can: Voting!
Emperor's New Clothes Syndrome (E.N.C.S) perfectly explains how Trump lost the election. Every tribal Trumpster said that they voted for Trump, but how many of these said Trumpsters privately voted that the Emperor was naked?
With E.N.C.S., it's possible that many many Trumpsters voted against Trump, and then went, 'Yeah, yeah. I voted for Trump. Screw those socialist libtard snowflakes.'
And no one in the tribe would be any wiser.
E.N.C.S. could explain - to the Trump Tribe, anyway - the unexplained discrepancy in votes against their tribal leader.
To quote Walt Kelly's, Pogo, 'We have met the enemy, and he is us.'
I strongly believe in this scenario. I strongly believe in the Emperor's New Clothes Syndrome. I suspect even some Trumpsters do. Could this tribe of Trump possibly be looking at each other and wondering, 'Could this Trumpster sitting next to me have E.N.C.S.? Is he or she really the reason why we lost the election? Did they really just think for themselves?
