Trump has somehow become the “cult leader” of the Republican party, transforming the over 168 years old party into almost to a pack of blind supporters scared of his now lost over 70 million twitter followers. The situation is so worrying that Republicans even revised their moral beliefs to align with Trumps, at least according to an ew study. This article by Eric W. Dolan is published by Psypost. Here is an excerpt:

New research sheds light on how people resolve inconsistencies between their own moral views and that of their preferred candidate. The findings, published in Political Psychology, suggest that U.S. voters on both sides of the political aisle tend to revise their perceptions of political leaders they support to align with their own moral beliefs.

The study, which examined the 2016 U.S. presidential election, also found that Republicans, but not Democrats, appeared to revise their own moral beliefs to reduce incongruities with Donald Trump.

“A lot of work in political science research shows how voters are often ‘followers,’ adjusting their views on issues to match the messages they get from their party’s leaders. We wanted to see if that pattern extended to moral beliefs as well, as morality is usually assumed to be more stable and thus exerting a causal influence on political preferences such as candidate choice,” explained study authors William Kidd and Joseph A. Vitriol.

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