Trump bragged how he could shoot someone on 5th street and his base would sill follow him, and we're seeing that play out right here at RF.
Correct.
Have you had a chance yet to read Dietrich Bonhoeffer's famous analysis of the "stupid people" in 1930s - 40s Germany? It's timeless. Everything he said back then about "stupid people", as he called them, is true today.
For instance: Bonhoeffer states, "The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being.”
I think it helps to remember that "stupid people" have lost their ability to reason, and cannot be expected to recover it. They will be stupid for life, most of them.