It’s a weird sort of mental illness?
Or there is something about the cult that attracts an unstable mind?
No, regular people fell for it too.
My take:
Back when it started in late 2017, the Trump base was getting anxious. He wasn’t locking her up, draining the swamp, or building the wall at the time. People WANTED to believe these things were really going on and that made them vulnerable to grifters. You either live in the painful cognitive dissonance of voting for a candidate who is not following through on his signature promises, OR you take the Hopium and feel better.
I think part of it was people trying to rationalize Trump’s 2017 problems.
Another group was people attracted to “secret knowledge”, and “things are not what they seem”