You know, sometimes, despite the intended message of the film “Idiocracy” some days it doesn’t seem that far from reality. It’s as if getting elected to a high office has a deleterious effect on your intellect.
There is no intellectual difference in the logic behind “Brawndo makes plants grow” and “Global warming caused the “polar vortex”.
None.
But these are the people that took a fictional book called ‘1984’ and used it as a handbook for governance. Their whole state of being is based in one fantasy or another so Reagan being in congress is ‘their truth’ and thus ‘true’.