Simply, facts don't matter to these folks.
The only thing we have going for us is that, if Mitch McConnell gets his way, these people will be dying off at a greater rate.
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov