something I find particularly frustrating about "you just need to listen to Trump voters" is that generally speaking if someone makes stupid decisions and you don't *they* would benefit from listening to *you*

Lost elections are rigged, won elections are fair. Good job numbers are real, bad ones are fake. Sex trafficking is bad, unless the traffickers will blame your enemies. Crime is bad, unless the criminals are pro-Trump. This isn’t 4D chess, or even tic-tac-toe, just Autocrat 101.