For the many Trump supporters I know, both the hard and soft-cult variety, ever admitting that Trump was, just as they were warned by people they already fear are actually smarter than they are, unfit for the office, a mortal threat to the GOP, and a danger to the nation, is just asking way too much of them psychologically. It would be a lot like forcing Alabama football fans to publicly declare that Auburn is the better school/team.

No matter what the scoreboard may say, Trump fans are just way too emotionally devoted to their current worldview to ever turn back now. Especially not because of a corrupt scheme involving a country they can’t find on a map, which didn’t impact their lives, and that never fully came to fruition.

The only way for that to change would be if significant portions of the “conservative” state-run media were to abandon Trump first. However, because the news media, especially on the right, is no longer a journalistic enterprise but rather an elaborate form of therapy geared at generating corporate profit, there is just no way that will happen (especially after the departure of Shepard Smith from Fox News).