I respectfully disagree with your commentary.

The point of the article is that Trump voters' reasons make sense, to Trump voters. They may not make sense to you or me (and I'll wager good money they probably don't), but then again, politics are now so polarized that the reasons I voted for Biden seem obtuse and ridiculous to Trump voters, too. More and more, many people who think about politics at all seem to commit to a candidate or party for almost religious reasons, and won't even hear an argument against them. Statistics and history are waved away as products of biased liberal universities. The candidate's own words are ignored, or they become a game of "whataboutism"- "my candidate may have said this, but yours said something ten times worse!"

That doesn't make them "idiots", it means they're so committed to this particular view that they aren't going to change for anything or anybody. You or I might think that's idiotic, but a person might otherwise be very intelligent. That's what's so damn frustrating.

In Trump's specific case, his boorishness is exactly the reason many of his supporters think he is "authentic"; they actually believe everyone is like that, deep down. It was maintained to me, by a black man at my workplace who also likes Trump, that "Everyone's a racist;" in other words, I presume, he's biased against me because I'm white and assumes I'm biased against him because he's black. He just feels Trump is being honest and forthright when he's openly racist. It doesn't enter his worldview that there are people who genuinely are not racist.

This would be one of many examples where someone could support Trump (and Republicans generally) for what they consider perfectly good reasons, where someone like me would argue (and did argue) "That's just not reality." But all evidence to the contrary is dismissed.