President Donald Trump’s political supporters have long been described as cult-like, from their willingness to change their ideology based on Trump’s whims to their reflexive distrust of established experts. In light of the Republican leader’s politically devastating losses in the 2026 midterm elections, these same true believers are now angry at every voter who did not stand by their man, at least according to a recent in-depth study.

“Last week we assembled a focus group of Republicans who voted for President Trump in both 2020 and 2024, and who, except for some local elections, voted straight-ticket Republican in this year’s midterms,” wrote polling expert Sarah Longwell in The Bulwark on Sunday.

“In my conversation with these voters, one thing became abundantly clear in their cacophony of cope: They were not blaming Trump,” Longwell added. “Instead, they were blaming the GOP candidates on the ticket for being terrible. They were blaming social media for pushing Trump Derangement Syndrome. And they were blaming their fellow Americans, who they insisted were just too brainwashed and emotional to just hold their noses and vote for the terrible candidates that Republicans offered them.”

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    19 hours ago

    Bruh tell that to the Bulwark, and to Haley Stevens, and Andrew Cuomo, and to the dipshits at CNN who keep bringing him up. Trump mentioned him at his rallies. Netanyahu mentioned him AT THE UN. It’s not Piker fans bringing him up all the time. It’s the GOP and AIPAC and weirdos like you lol

    You’re very clearly trying to project your own piker obsessions and personal shortcomings onto everyone else. Stop that. ✋️

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      19 hours ago

      Bruh, ur assessment of my angle is just straight wrong. I have no fucks to give or skin in the influencer game whatsoever. I never once even heard his voice until Amy Goodman interviewed him on Democracy Now election night coverage. I’ve been astounded that he’s getting platformed by everyone and thought, hell may as well hear what he has to say. I was left underwhelmed and perplexed why he gets so much coverage and noise.

      Day after some weird ass Pi-kuck, like you, got all high and mighty claiming if not Hassan there would be no bluenami, LOfuckingL

      Now I come here today and you’re projecting Pi’kuc-kult weirdness and again, wtf.

      Fuck twitch, weirdo influencers and their low-iq followers and especially fuck all you cultists whether maga or Piker. Read a fucking book. Get out of the basement, grow a garden, walk your fucking dog.

      Most importantly shut-thefuckup

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        I’ve been astounded that he’s getting platformed by everyone

        But he’s not. He gets smeared by the pundits on the major networks and they won’t talk to him about his positions on policy, instead they continue to smear him from a distance. The networks fear him because once he does get in front of their cameras, he’s calm, articulate and exposes their manipulative framing of questions.

        He did get invited to Simone Sanders show and she came at him hard and he bested her pretty handily. The political consultant class hate him because he has demonstrated that you don’t need big money to win elections and you don’t need high priced political consultants who get kickbacks for the ads they buy.

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        19 hours ago

        Yeah I’m not reading all that. Take your own advice and go outside, loser.