• markovs_gun@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I think you are vastly overestimating his base. They are looking for convenient excuses not logic or evidence. As long as there is a convenient excuse to trot out, Trump is still God Incarnate and the delusions continue. Someone looking for the truth won’t be swayed by the obviously bribed testimony of someone who has repeatedly lied under oath, but these people aren’t looking for the truth- they already have it in whatever Trump is saying that day. They just need something to point to and say “See? She says he wasn’t involved so he wasn’t involved! You liberals are just making things up to hurt Trump again!” This is a world where evidence isn’t what matters, it’s quips. As long as there’s a quip to shut down any disagreement the fantasy that Trump is a saintly hero of democracy can continue.

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      I’m sure some of them will believe whatever the narrative is, but some of them have been on this train since the early QAnon days. They’ve been promised arrests, public executions, and a, “great awakening,” where their conspiracy theories about the deep-state pedophile cabal is exposed and their children call them and apologize for uninviting them to Thanksgiving. Trump created a very big fracture with those people a few weeks ago when he told them to shut up and stop talking about Epstien, and his damage control has been very poor. Maybe he can get ahold of the narrative again, but he’ll need to do more than have a human trafficker say he did nothing wrong.