2 + 2 = 5

 I happened to be reading about the Underground Man by Dostoevsky (Notes from the Underground) and the meditation on 2+2=5 seems to fit the Trumpists very well. Much like Dostoevsky’s “underground man” these idiots are trying to express a rejection of 2+2=4. They (unconsciously, no doubt) posit 2+2=5 to the world, especially to authority, to say “fuck you” to the system. This supposedly shows they have some kind of free will and a rejection of modern corporate society. "Truth" is what they say it is, usually in an overbearing and loud voice. Doesn’t matter how many proofs there are that says they are wrong. If they say it’s right, it must be, precisely because they say so. Not for nothing is this an example of absurdist and atavistic thinking.  but they are not smart enough to recognize it. 

"Merciful Heavens! but what do I care for the laws of nature and arithmetic, when, for some reason I dislike those laws and the fact that twice two makes four? Of course I cannot break through the wall by battering my head against it if I really have not the strength to knock it down, but I am not going to be reconciled to it simply because it is a stone wall and I have not the strength....And who knows (there is no saying with certainty), perhaps the only goal on earth to which mankind is striving lies in this incessant process of attaining, in other words, in life itself, and not in the thing to be attained, which must always be expressed as a formula, as positive as twice two makes four, and such positiveness is not life, gentlemen, but is the beginning of death....I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too. "