• Cult Behavior
• Peer-pressure
• Kompromat (Russia)
• Kompromat (Trump)
• Job security
• Secondary financial gain of being office holder
• Polarization
• Job prestige
• "No one defends a conman more adamantly than he who has been conned"
• Bribery
• Power (both real and perceived)
• Lower empathy
• Low value placed on education
• Low value placed on objectivity
• False dichotomous world-view
• Need to be led by a strong-man figure
• Living lower on Maslow's Triangle
• Fear of self-actualization
• Increased racism/tribalism/"othering"