A sinister and deadly wager lies underneath former President Donald Trump’s false claims that Democrats steal federal emergency funding, a new political analysis contends. It’s the same gamble then-President Trump took in 2020 as COVID-19 ravaged the nation, Salon’s Amanda Marcotte argued Thursday: he’s betting his “lies and conspiracy theories” will energize more supporters than they kill. “At the heart of Trump’s pandemic lies was a sociopathic calculation: His lies and conspiracy theories would offset the loss of MAGA voters to COVID deaths,” Marcotte wrote. “Trump is making the same bet ag…