I can't believe people are still trying to make excuses for covfefe like...2 years later? Or longer? I can't even remember. How hard is it to say he mistyped something?
It's a Mao's Mango-esque situation, and by far the leading evidence that Trump has a Stalin/Mao/Kim Jong-esque cult of personality surrounding him.
For those of you unfamiliar with this historical incident: while touring a steelworks in southern China, Mao was presented a basket of various local luxuries and foods (as is expected when your country's leader, despotic or no, tours your business)- included in this basket was a number of mangoes the factory owner had gotten from a family friend who grew them. Mao had one and said something to the effect of "hey, this is pretty good- Chang, get a crate of these up to Bejing in time for the next meeting of the Central Committee."
Mao probably barely thought anything about this, but the ripple effects were frankly insane. As soon as the news that Mao liked mangoes reached the ears of various Party members, they started buying mangoes like mad- after all, if Mao likes mangoes, then by showing that
they like mangoes as well, their affiliation with Mao would be seen as authentic. But then some people realized that, if eating mangoes signaled their loyalty to Mao, then declaring mangoes to be a
symbol of Maoist thought would show they were even
more loyal, and to hell with the fact that this made no fucking sense. So then
everyone was talking about how the mango dividing easily around their seed when ripe showed how resources were perfectly divided by the Central Committee, and then some people, to show how they were
even more loyal than the rest, began filling bowls in their houses with nothing but mangoes, and soon everyone was doing
that. Eventually, China's mango production ability was pushed past its limits due to Party members buying up all the mangoes as a symbol of how loyal they were to Mao. The steelworks that offered the First Mango build a wax replica and enshrined it before a photo of Mao by the main entrance- people were required to bow to this secular shrine to Maoism and Mangoes. As the shortages began, there were instances of Party members being arrested and subjected to Struggle Sessions (a form of public humiliation that often involved torture or execution) for failing to have a mango in their home, because any
truly loyal Maoist would have mangoes on hand at all times. Eventually, however, the shortages reached the point where no-one could get mangoes, and the fervor for them quietly died down.
My point is this: in any given cult of personality, those who wish to curry favor with the object of worship (or, more commonly, with the "high priests" who claim to act as intermediaries with the object of worship) are in a competition to show their loyalty, and the best way to show their loyalty is to take a position more extreme and ludicrous than anyone else. After the vanguard adopt this position and gain favor, the line of the movement shifts accordingly, until the previous, above-and-beyond position is the norm, and the vanguard must adopt a more extreme iteration of the previous position, until the baseline rises to an unsustainable level. At this point, the movement begins to attack itself in a "purity spiral", excoriating and shedding members who are unwilling to maintain the increasingly-taxing level of activity needed to be a member of the movement, until it is boiled down to a core of "true believers" more concerned with ideological purity than with the movement's stated goals, or the vanguard tacks away from the spiral and the movement stabilizes.
The SJW sphere is a great example of this; events such as Gamergate are an example of ideological formation and acceleration in action, and there even was a brief purity spiral until the topic died down (and even
now you can identify ideological adherents by their signalling of Gamergate as a synonym for "the amassed forces of human evil). What most people call TDS is another example of ideological acceleration/purity spiralling; I legitimately believe that most people with "TDS" don't
truly believe that Trump is the most evil creature to ever walk the face of the Earth; they are simply claiming that he is to maintain standing or advance their position in the movement.
Most TES behavior, likewise, is an example of signalling behavior- although, given that Trump's personality cult draws more strongly from a pool of conspiracy theorists of various stripes, I'd put the odds slightly higher on whether a given member believes the outrageous things about Trump or his enemies they say.
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