Why Do So Many Trump Supporters Deny Facts?
4 min readFeb 11, 2021
Denial, some psychologists say, is an evolutionary survival strategy. As humans and consciousness evolved, an understanding of the inevitability and finality of death followed. Those who could not get past the disheartening reality of looming death were selected out, because, one presumes, never leaving your cave because — “What’s the point?” — makes you vulnerable to attack by wild animals and/or enemies.