Other customers like Elitia Henry, a 32-year-old 911 dispatcher from Windfall, said she’s already suspicious of the upcoming election and would have questions about the outcome of the race if Trump doesn’t win.

“If it’s an honest election, and Harris wins, so be it,” he said. “That’s the way it goes, but I fear for the future of our country if that happens.”

The feeling is especially strong among evangelical voters, McAdams asserted, some of whom see Trump as a vessel of God. A Pew Research poll found that about 80% of Trump voters identify with a Christian denomination.

Such fear might be the most animating force for Trump supporters, argued psychologist Adams. Since first announcing his candidacy in 2015, Trump has unceasingly painted a dark picture of an America beset by violence, corruption and criminal illegal immigrants.

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All who oppose him are deemed his adversaries, especially Democrats, whom Trump recently called “evil” and the “enemy from within.”

Others like Henry, the 911 dispatcher, admit Trump often makes crass, offensive statements and brags about himself too much, but that doesn’t bother her.

“As far as I’m concerned, the people that are in the administration right now are totally incompetent,” Blacklidge said. “I think every day that passes, it’s become more and more evident.”

Blacklidge doesn’t particularly like Trump’s environmental policies, which include gas and oil drilling in national forests and federal lands. The former president has “a little bit to learn” about those issues, he said. Even so, Blacklidge offered a glowing review of the former president.

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That’s how Miller, the 64-year-old Kokomo resident, feels. She fears that if Harris is elected, the nation will become communist and overrun with crime.

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But that all changed when Donald Trump entered the presidential primary in 2015. Kelly was immediately drawn to the New York real estate mogul and TV celebrity, who didn’t sound or act anything like a politician.

The former president’s unending claims that his actions and policies are perfect, that he has never made a mistake or apologized or shown remorse, has created an almost inhuman aura around him, McAdams contends.

But behavior that would immediately end the career of nearly any other politician has no effect on Trump and sometimes makes him even more popular, argued Dan McAdams, a psychologist at Northwestern University and author of the 2020 book “The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump.”

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“He just cares about the country,” she said. “He cares about the people. He proved that first go-around. He did everything he said, and then Biden went in one day and wiped it all out.”

An array of T-shirts hung in the makeshift booth, some with Trump’s mugshot from the Fulton County jail in Georgia, where he was booked last year on charges related to the accusation that he attempted to change the outcome of the 2020 election.

That’s one reason Brenda Kelly decided to travel the nation selling Trump merchandise with her husband. The more excitement they can create for Trump, the better the chances he’ll win a second term to save the nation from Democrats and immigrants, she said.

For Kelly and her husband, Kevin, a 59-year-old Hoosier originally from Fort Wayne, supporting Trump is more than just a political stance. It’s become a lifestyle.

Unlike Trump himself and some of his supporters, Blacklidge is willing to accept the results of the Nov. 5 election, even if Democratic nominee Kamala Harris prevails.

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Those traits and lack of “emotional makeup that most people have” create a sense that Trump possesses some kind of superhuman power to do things no other person can, according to McAdams.

“I’m scared for my great-grandbabies,” Miller said. “I think the country’s in bad shape right now, but Trump’s gonna pull us out.”

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The catcalls didn’t stop a steady stream of local Trump supporters from pulling in to peruse MAGA hats, bumper stickers and million-dollar bills with Trump’s face in the middle.

That’s the case for Robert Morrisett, a 57-year-old Kokomo resident who heeds ministers preaching end-times Christian prophesy. He believes Trump “stands for the truth” and has been ordained by God to be the last president before the antichrist comes.

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Her love of Trump has only grown in the past four years watching President Joe Biden and Democrats run the country. Their policies focus on helping illegal immigrants more than American citizens, Kelly asserted.

Each customer was part of the Trump brotherhood, and Kevin Kelly gave each one a special sendoff as they loaded up their merchandise and left, ready to put their support on public display.

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For Trump supporters like Kokomo’s Kent Blacklidge, the former president’s appeal is more about policy than personality. The 85-year-old former newspaper publisher and environmental activist likes Trump mostly for his opposition to Democratic policies on taxes and immigration.

Trump’s rise and the return of Republican dominance in the Hoosier state has been propelled by white, working-class voters attracted to “The Apprentice” star’s bombastic, scorched-earth style.

That zealous support has led many Republican politicians and candidates in Indiana to adopt a similar approach, piggybacking on Trump’s amped-up rhetoric regarding immigrants and the economy and using his endorsements to bolster their conservative bona fides. The tactic has worked; no Democrat has won statewide office in Indiana since 2012.

The 67-year-old Florida native was fed up with politicians, including the ones from her own party. In her view, even candidates like President George W. Bush weren’t “true Republicans.”

For the past five years, the couple has crisscrossed the nation in a massive RV they call “the boat” selling Trump merchandise. They started in Key West and made their way to South Dakota. For the last couple of years, they’ve hit up Trump rallies. Now, the Kellys are spending some time in Indiana.

“He’s really incredibly clever at finding ways to scare people to death and then offering himself as the savior,” Adams said. “He’s able to give everybody an enemy, and when you have an enemy … you go for somebody who promises to save you or rescue you from the threat.”

“We knew it was bad but, my God, we didn’t know it was that bad until Trump got in,” Kelly said. “Half the people in America didn’t know how bad it was till Trump got in and exposed it. That’s why they hate him.”

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“They all want to debunk President Trump and accuse him of touching and grabbing women,” Morrisett said. “He never did that. It’s a sad deal they want to try to make a liar out of him and all that, but God’s got the final say.”

“Politicians are horrible, and I wanted somebody that wasn’t a politician, someone with fresh eyes from the outside to see that things need to change,” she said.

On an afternoon in October, the two set up shop at a busy intersection of two state highways in rural Howard County. As traffic streamed past the display of billowing Trump flags, some honked and cheered in support while others shouted derisively.

Many outside the Trump-sphere find the former president’s behavior to be offensive, rude and criminal. He has mocked the disabled, derided decorated veterans like former U.S. Sen. John McCain and bragged about groping women in the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape. A jury last year found him liable for sexual abuse.

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“Trump supporters would hold anybody else accountable, but not him, because he’s different,” he said. “He doesn’t have empathy. He doesn’t have a sense of reverence. He’s never sad. People kind of sense that about him, like there’s something bizarre here. But they like that and like having him on their side.”

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But only love of the former president was on display at the roadside stand as customers picked up “Let’s Go Brandon” socks and shirts emblazoned with the image of Trump, face bloodied and defiant, pumping his fist after the assassination attempt in July.

While stocking up on their favorite Trump swag, customers said they believe the former president when he claims he won the 2020 election, despite no evidence or facts to support that claim.

Indiana has been solid Trump country for eight years. He handily won the state in 2016 and 2020, garnering 57% of the vote each time. Indiana’s electoral votes have routinely gone to Republican presidential candidates, but as recently as 2008 the state went for Democrat and first-time candidate Barack Obama.