Ignorance is bliss, as they say. When Pew Research asked voters who won the popular vote, here’s what they found:

Nearly a third of Republicans either didn't answer or gave the wrong response when asked who actually got more national votes.

Wanh-wanh. Of course, Hillary Clinton leads Trump in the popular vote by about 2.7 million votes. Overall, she may even garner as many total votes as Barack Obama did in 2012: 65.9 million.

But Trump has told his true believers that "millions" of Clinton's votes were cast "illegally," one of the endless string of fantastical lies he will tell over the course of his presidency. That germ has clearly infected most his voters, finds PPP.

60% of Trump voters think that Hillary Clinton received millions of illegal votes to only 18% who disagree with that concept and 22% who aren't sure either way.

As for Americans who are actually showing signs of conscious living (including an aptitude for critical thinking), PPP finds they don't like the idea of the "president" being a popular-vote loser.

Voters don't think that Trump's Electoral College victory while losing the popular vote is really fair--50% think the candidate who receives the most votes nationally in the election should become President, to only 37% who disagree with that concept.

Trump and his minions may not know it yet, but that's a huge problem for him. From the moment he's sworn in, a large swath of the population will immediately view him as illegitimate. Good luck with that.