This explains a LOT.
Several studies, conducted in the last few years, have confirmed that the conservative brain is hard-wired in a way that encourages conservative beliefs. Specifically, the amygdala, which is the brain structure that controls "primal" emotions such as fear, lust, anger, etc. is more active and responsive in the conservative brain than in the normal one. The particular structure is the right amygdala, which controls the fear response.
The essence of conservatism as a sociopolitical outlook is "change is bad." That's because in the heightened amygdalic responses of the conservative brain, change breeds uncertainty--which in turn, breeds fear. And since fear is not necessarily a rational response to a stimulus, many conservative points of opposition to change are likewise irrational--including a default setting of opposing social progress, which makes conservatives anxious.
This hypersensitivity hasn't been "bred out" of the human race, despite its obvious downsides (wars, murders, oppression, tyranny), because society does actually need a few paranoid conservatives. They make better soldiers in some limited contexts, and their worldview is more accurate than it usually is during times of political and social upheaval.
So we should understand and pity the Trumper; it's just that he was born with a Commodore 64 chip in his head instead of a Pentium.
(Cue: our resident Trumpers telling me I'm full of it AND that they didn't actually read this post. LOL, as they say.) I can provide links to those studies if anyone's truly interested. Here's one such study:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0052970
Our Trumpers will criticize and insult me for this, of course, but it's not my idea, and not my research. I happen to believe in science, though, not Sean Hannity. Our Trumpers won't try to read the article, and they shouldn't--it uses far too many big words.
