Many of them grew up in the church, attending 2-3 times per week and spend every single Sunday surrounded by people of one mind. As children we tend to default to believing people and when everyone you know says the same thing constantly it becomes real fucking easy to just accept as truth without questioning (especially when your religion contains a fancy “faith” clause that exists to hand wave away any inconsistency and when doubt itself is enough for an eternal trip to the fire pit).

The real kicker is that, having been trained since birth to accept as truth anything the powerful man in the front says you are primed to fall for politicians making wild and provably false claims without presenting any evidence.