Nervous Republicans See Trump Sinking, and Taking Senate With Him nytimes.com/2020/04/25/us/…
When Trump comes into the pressers recently, he's likely just been told his polls are falling. He's not paying any attention to medical reality. He goes into the echo chamber of the extreme right internet and sees what his lunatic fringe is talking about. And sells it.
The thing that backing down will do for trump is make the fringe like the Qanon crew think Trump has betrayed the the cause of crazy. The scope of the propaganda infiltration of US society is immense. But has to be maintained. Putin knows and may tell Trump to change course.
