She chooses her facts (such as they are) to confirm her bias. As is the case with many Trump supporters, something is true only if Trump or Right Wing news sources say it’s true.
Working hard isn’t enough. Look at it from the POV of the Trump takeover of the GOP. That was powered largely by fear of loss of status by specific groups. Trump had a ready-made group that were already convinced, they just wanted someone to say it out loud.
One presentation of the rise of Donald Trump focuses on the anti-establishment backlash that the Republican Party experienced during the presidency of Barack Obama. The tea party was one manifestation, and Trump’s appearance as a presidential candidate in 2015 did attempt to leverage that frustration with establishment Washington.
More important, though, was the overlap between that anti-establishment sentiment and the embrace of outright false claims about political subjects. Part of the frustration with Republican leaders was that their actions and rhetoric were increasingly divergent from the rhetoric on Fox News and on fringier upstarts like Breitbart. Trump was both unattached to D.C. respectability and immersed in the fringe-right vernacular, and that’s what he presented to Republican primary voters.
The sky in Varvel’s world must be orange.