Fact: Trump supporters don't care if Trump lies. If they repeat something Trump says, and then find out it isn’t factual, they don’t care.
That's a hard one for non-Trump supporters to wrap their minds around.
slate.com/news-and-polit…
When you argue with Trumpsters and use the truth as a weapon, it doesn’t really faze them.
They’re holding onto something they think is more important than literal truth.
When Hitler’s followers learned he lied . . .
Trump framed the shutdown fight as being between him and the Democrats:
It is Trump (who he presents to his followers as the leader who embodies the mythic destiny of the nation) v. the Enemies.
The Constitution offers simple solution to the shutdown: Enough members of Congress veto the president.
history.house.gov/Institution/Pr…
It’s a clever lie.
Sarah Sanders said the lies “point out an important truth.”
Maybe like metaphors? The world isn't really a stage.
“The deep state is trying to bring down Trump” means that people like Preet Bharara are stubbornly holding out, refusing to see the higher truth that Trump is "rescuing" the country.
Truth is nuanced and complicated and doesn’t fit as well into sound bites.
@ChrisKurselArt asked, "What breaks the spell of not truth?"
I'll attach my response in the next tweet.