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You just said it all.

"It doesn't matter if it's false, because it's true to their beliefs," is exactly what Sarah Sanders basically told Daniel Dale.

Sanders said the lies get to a "deeper truth," and people care about that deeper truth.

I wrote about that . . .

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. . . in this Slate article in 2018👇

This is why MAGA people are immune to the truth, and arguing with them and showing them facts is pointless.

November 2020 is about making sure that the disinformation tactics . . .
slate.com/news-and-polit…

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. . . do not succeed in causing such despair and frustration and outrage and loss of hope that the non-MAGA vote stays home.

It's about turning out the vote of those who see what Trump is, not wooing or persuading "swing" voters.
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Teri Kanefield
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We also understand American history differently.

Once upon a time I understood American constitutional history as an ever-expanding sense of who is included in "We the People."

We started with white land-owning white men.
Under Andrew Jackson, we included all white men. . .
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The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments (Civil War Amendments) expanded "We the People" to include black men in theory.

The 19th Amendment included women.

Brown v. Board, and the Civil Rights movement expanded "we the people" to include all ethnicities.

In fact . . .

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. . . that was how I pitched my "Making of America" series of books to my publisher: terikanefield.com/the-making-of-…

I imagined US history is an arc bending toward greater justice as more people come to be included in “we the people.”

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Response to @AshaRangappa_ ’s first question.

I don't think it’s a shame spiral for most of the GOP leadership because I don’t think most of them (McConnell, McCarthy, Nunes, etc.) feel any shame.

Chris Christie told Colbert he's still a "fan" of Trumps . . .

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@AshaRangappa_ . . . even though he doesn’t approve of everything Trump does (like the lying). Many of them embrace what Trump stands for.

I’ll go farther. Many of them embrace what Putin stands for.

Here’s Katie Hopkins (with Coulter) praising Putin⤵️
rt.com/uk/429777-kati…

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@AshaRangappa_ Romney and Kasich feel shame—but they still vote GOP and support down ticket Republican candidates, and they clearly have little influence over the party.

The GOP got into this mess in the 1960s when they figured out there weren't enough traditional conservatives . . .

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Teri Kanefield
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The study is here: cell.com/current-biolog… Conclusion: Conservatives are more fearful

I am not a psychologist so I can't answer questions about the amygdala.

I should be working but instead I'll tell an amusing story about one of my conversations with a Trump supporter . . .
1/ I’m 5 feet tall. The guy was at least 6’ 5. One of his legs probably weighs more than me.

He was the contractor who was supposed to replace the rotted door to the side of our garage when we were trying to buy our house.
2/ Aside: He figured I was probably a lib, so he tried to shock me by telling me about his gun collection.

I shrugged and smiled. (I make sure that I never live up to stereotypes when meeting MAGA people)

I wanted to replace with what was there: A pretty French door . . .
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