Perhaps they believe President Trump’s fallacious assertion that 3 million to 5 million illegal voters put Clinton over the top in the popular vote. Maybe they never grasped that Trump lost the popular vote. But this is embarrassing, shocking even. The report continues:

Allan Lichtman, a professor of history at American, said in an email Tuesday that Trump has “perfected the technique of the Big Lie” — which, as he wrote in an op-ed last fall, is to “repeat a lie loudly, over and over until people come to believe it.” “These results show that again that like ‘Birtherism,’ which launched Trump’s political career, the Big Lie continues to work, at least among those who want to believe it,” noted Lichtman, a professor who won professional acclaim last year after correctly predicting Trump’s victory.

If these voters do not know or cannot accept something as simple as vote totals, do we really expect they will be amenable to reason on immigration (sorry, but illegal immigrants aren’t causing a crime wave), global warning (sorry, it’s not a hoax) or uncontroverted evidence of Russian meddling in the election? I’m sure all this makes the Trump staff and surrogates laugh uproariously as they admire their handiwork in bamboozling the angry mob. But they and the network of right-wing enablers have done real damage to our society and politics, making differences impossible to bridge and reasoned debate nearly impossible.

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Trump, as Kellyanne Conway tells us, does not think he is lying when he tells us demonstrably false things. What does that say of his mental fitness and the lack of responsibility of those around him in encouraging him to operate in a parallel reality?

And here’s where the executives at Fox News, the “serious” conservative media, elected GOP officials and even self-identified conservative pundits need to be held to account. They know much of the rubric of the Trump cult is absolutely false, yet they repeat, propagate or just tolerate it. It’s a game in which the only rule is to beat “liberal elites” or run a successful money-making operation where gullible donors can be fleeced with an appeal to stop perceived enemies (i.e., those who won’t drink the Kool-Aid).