There’s a reason for the low credibility

Steve Christensen (Letters, Dec 25) asked why people tend to lump Trump supporters in with flat-Earthers, climate change deniers, etc.: it’s because they’re all seemingly immune to facts and data that contradict their beliefs.

Consider: more than half of Republican voters believe Trump won the 2020 election, despite zero evidence to support their claims of massive voter fraud, and overwhelming evidence (including from Republican election officials) that Trump lost fairly and handily.

A survey of Trump voters showed that 57% said that it was “definitely” or “probably true” that President Obama was born in Kenya, and twothirds believe he’s Muslim.

Almost a third of Louisiana Republicans blamed Obama for the government’s Hurricane Katrina response (when Bush was president).

Another survey showed that 80% of Trump voters don’t believe that Russia hacked the Democratic party’s emails to help him win the election, even though every US intelligence agency affirms that they did.

A 2016 poll showed that 69% of Trump voters believed that vaccines cause autism, and another in 2017 showed that only a quarter of them believed that climate change was occurring and was caused by human activity.

Throw in their fact-free beliefs about Democratic pedophile sex rings, the effectiveness of trickle- down economics, the Hunter Biden laptop ridiculousness, or Trump’s honesty, fidelity, or business acumen, and it’s no wonder that Trump supporters have such low credibility regarding pretty much everything.

— Scott Paulo, Chico