“The Trump cult now consists of somewhere between 28 and 35 percent of Republican voters, sometimes defined in polls as people who would vote for Trump even if he runs at the head of a third-party ticket, and more recently even if he is a convicted felon doing jail time. That sums to between 45.2 and 56.5 million people out of a total of 161.42 million registered voters—not a trivial number. Not all of them are conspiracy-addled, adolescent-brained naïfs, but many do appear to fit the description.”