It has nothing to do with agreeing with them, and everything to do with believing that malicious liars are not being truthful when they tell you what their grievances are, especially when they use those grievances to advance policies--like these--that make everything they claim to be upset about worse!
Should we also cater to their insistence that Barack Obama was a secret Muslim and that measles vaccines are just as dangerous as the measles, or are we only supposed to attribute and credit invented motives to Trump supporters because those are the ones we need to make them seem sympathetic?
Given that the signature feature of Trumpism is wildly dishonest conspiracy theorizing, my baseline assumption is that any Trump supporting claiming they were defected against is that they are lying outright, using that imagined betrayal as a cover for the vicious, stupid bigotry that actually motivates them
The way to deal with Nazis is to crush them thoroughly, until they recognize that Nazism is suicide, not to accommodate them because they feel they were stabbed in the back by Judeo-Bolshevism
We learned that lesson the hard way the first time, and it looks like we'll have to learn that lesson the hard way the second time, too
Yeah, I mean they're not bringing their Liz Trussalike to heel now as he does his level best to crash the global economy, but most of the Congressional Republicans who are committed to nonfeasance now also voted against holding him accountable in February of 2020 after he sent a mob to murder them
The story of Trump's rise to power is also a story of every American institution failing to meet him with appropriate resistance, and the institution that failed first and most thoroughly is the Republican Party
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It has nothing to do with agreeing with them, and everything to do with believing that malicious liars are not being truthful when they tell you what their grievances are, especially when they use those grievances to advance policies--like these--that make everything they claim to be upset about worse!
Should we also cater to their insistence that Barack Obama was a secret Muslim and that measles vaccines are just as dangerous as the measles, or are we only supposed to attribute and credit invented motives to Trump supporters because those are the ones we need to make them seem sympathetic?
Given that the signature feature of Trumpism is wildly dishonest conspiracy theorizing, my baseline assumption is that any Trump supporting claiming they were defected against is that they are lying outright, using that imagined betrayal as a cover for the vicious, stupid bigotry that actually motivates them
Then we defect against them harder next time
The way to deal with Nazis is to crush them thoroughly, until they recognize that Nazism is suicide, not to accommodate them because they feel they were stabbed in the back by Judeo-Bolshevism
We learned that lesson the hard way the first time, and it looks like we'll have to learn that lesson the hard way the second time, too
Yeah, I mean they're not bringing their Liz Trussalike to heel now as he does his level best to crash the global economy, but most of the Congressional Republicans who are committed to nonfeasance now also voted against holding him accountable in February of 2020 after he sent a mob to murder them
The story of Trump's rise to power is also a story of every American institution failing to meet him with appropriate resistance, and the institution that failed first and most thoroughly is the Republican Party