The fact that we put people in power who believe fairy tales over objective reality is legitimately terrifying.

Same bullshit going on with Kegsbreath right now. Fucking lunacy.

If a belief is widely shared within a culture or group, it is not classified as a delusion, even if it seems irrational from the outside.

So since believing in the end times is pretty normal in US cultural groups, then it is not insanity. So by your very own self-description as “pretty liberal”, you are obliged to not disqualify people like Bush II from having access to the nuclear suitcase…