Let's look at this in SCIFI terms. The dementia don and his cabal et al live in FLATLAND*. 2 dimensions. They don't know it. Wanna tell 'em?

*FLATLAND was a book about two-dimensional beings living in a 3-dimensional world. Of course what they perceived was limited by their lack of access to that 3rd dimension. The graphics were mindblowing. It was out of print when I found a copy in a used book store. One of the best scifi things I've ever read and the most mindstretching.

Now it is was not their fault they were two-dimensional beings. We are what we are.  What was going on in the 3rd dimension was something they could never relate to since it did not exist for them.

So that's what's going on here. The dementia don cabal et al really believe their two-dimensional world is all there is. That's why they speak as they speak and act as they act and believe what they believe. They will never be 3-dimensional beings. They are stuck. I dunno how else to explain how disparate their comprehension is from the rest of us. It's gotta be physical psychological limitations which of necessity limits any intellectual grasp of reality. Emotions are limited too as is spirituality. That is why EVANGELICALS embrace dementia don. They are missing that 3rd dimension of reality. There it is. End of story.