How to Make a Minion: Credulity and the Suspension of Disbelief

Trump doesn't have followers he has minions. Followers retain some species of independence and integrity. Minions trade that in for identification.

From that they get catharsis and feelings of belonging and security. The ticket to minionism is the suspension of disbelief, a convention of theater.

It involves overcoming the awareness of the obvious unreality of the performance, mostly through immersion, I suppose, and forced credulity. 

So Trump is a performance artist. But as an artist he is schlock, a symptom of cultural decline. The question is: how much lower can we go?

How much lower can we go than Trump, that is, before we come unglued? Or are we unglued already?