Here’s a pretty simplistic theory of why voters disdain him and his “policies” so much right now: Americans generally agree that Donald Trump is a liar.

The question is: Is he a terrible liar or a wonderful liar?

Those who see him as a “wonderful” liar love how he walks between the raindrops to achieve things Republicans never have before: ending Roe, gutting Medicaid, and turning the EPA and his entire regime into a cudgel to beat down science. They get to watch brown people chased through the streets and Black women punished for their progress. They know he’s a con and a crook. But he’s their con/crook/boss, and the rewards trickle down all over their sense of rightful domination.

The rest of the country—the 50 to 60 percent who know monarchy and dictatorship are built on the misery of the many—never bought the act. Maybe they voted Trump once or twice, but just because they were mad at the incumbent. They know they’re either in the many or could easily be among them. And being lied to, as everything is intentionally rigged to help the worst people in the country, is just a bonus insult.

The problem for Trump is that even the people who think he’s a wonderful liar have to now face that he’s a terrible liar all the time, personally, every time they put gas in their car or produce in a shopping bag.

And unless they have Fox and/or X jacked directly into their lobe, they know that the main reason prices are up—the Iran War—is absolute bullshit. Even Trump senses that as he lies about his motivation for starting the war, supposedly preventing a nuclear Iran from erasing Israel and the whole Middle East. It’s a lie Bibi Netanyahu has been selling for 30 years and a lie so bad that even George W. Bush didn’t fall for it. Trump—high as any human has ever been off his adventure in Venezuela—decided he was Bibi’s huckleberry.