"I considered that possibility, of course, but I really think something beyond ordinary bad faith, lying, and confusion is involved here. Ordinary bad faith and lying are goal-directed -- people use them to try to achieve something -- and ordinary confusion is usually amenable to the repeated impacts of reality, e.g., "Something must be wrong, I keep getting whacked upside the head.""

I've sometimes wondered if the privileged classes might want Trump to win for some reason. Of course they won't admit to it, even to themselves, but that just makes the output look all the more like it's the ravings of lunatics.