For the last four years, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about why anyone would follow a mentally ill con artist. Why would 70 million Americans vote for someone who has nothing to offer but lies and empty promises? The answer is cognitive dissonance: the human brain lies to itself to protect deeply held beliefs about reality that are in fact…
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