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29 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Have you ever talked to a Trump supporter
I sincerely hope that Joe Biden will win the election and be inaugurated in January. But Trump’s base isn’t going to just go away.

They will still disregard everything the mainstream media tells them, and invent their own fanciful stories about Biden, Harris, and AOC.
As Trump’s base has repeatedly demonstrated, they are entirely untethered by reality. They will soldier on with memories of a nation under the firm grip of Dear Leader, a selfless idealist who sacrificed all to make America great again. If only the Deep State hadn’t stopped him!
I don’t know how we can “invite [Trump supporters] in” when they don’t even recognize the same set of facts that we do.

I predict that it’d be a big step for them to even acknowledge that Trump lost. Remember, they take their cues from the top. (And Trump NEVER admits defeat.)

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20 Oct
Donald Trump has spent his entire Presidency, if not his whole adult life, crafting a narrative he hopes to convince us is the “truth”.

He views it as an unforgivable offense if others offer facts that run counter to his narrative.

Above all: the narrative must be preserved.
I think about this in light of his debate performance, & his reaction to the still-unseen Lesley Stahl interview for 60 MINUTES. How much it clearly terrifies him to let anyone else pass judgment on him, tell his story, or get in the last word.

He’s like a toddler: “No. No. No!”
Now that Trump is, at least nominally, the Leader of the Free World, he feels genuinely entitled to present his narrative as fact without being challenged by anybody. It’s why he constantly complains that the MSM gangs up on him, which his acolytes are all too willing to believe.
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19 Oct
Here’s the thing about Trump supporters: they all believe that virtually all of the media is lying to them, virtually all of the time.

That is a necessary precondition to being a Trump supporter. If that supposition turned out not to be true, being pro-Trump would make no sense.
Imagine having a worldview where EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVE is contingent on such a shadowy conspiracy theory. Where “The Deep State is out to get Trump” is the linchpin of every political view that guides you.

You can’t prove it; not really. But your views make no sense without it.
HOW WE GOT HERE

Step 1: TALK RADIO

R: “I will listen to Rush Limbaugh because he is entertaining and I agree with his views. He makes me feel smart by telling me things that the liberal media won’t.”
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7 Oct
In some circles of the anti-Trump universe, it is popular to imagine a post-Trump reckoning, much like that of Nazi Germany, wherein his followers deny ever having supported him.

I do not imagine anywhere near that level of self-awareness.
The GOP will never be convinced Trump did anything wrong.

They will believe the Democrats relentlessly hounded him & impeached him for no good reason.

They will believe he was unfairly blamed for the deadliest pandemic in history & cheated out of reelection by a vengeful media.
Their media bubble will ensure that they never view our shared history in the same way we see it. No matter how insanely obvious it may seem to us.

“History will not be kind” is gone. Fox News and other fact-averse media has robbed us of any kind of shared perspective.
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2 Oct
Anything is possible, but here is why I am skeptical of the claims that Trump is faking COVID-19.

(1/x)
I don’t believe he would knowingly suspend his campaign one month before the election. While his handlers may disagree, Trump truly believes he KILLED at the debate Tuesday night. Staying silent now would mean no more rallies, no more cheering crowds, no more photo ops.

(2/x)
As I’ve said before, “I’m not gonna let liberals tell me what to do!” is the primary engine behind Coronavirus skepticism, much as it is for all other conservative ideology.

(3/x)
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29 Sep
It sounds crazy, but it just might work
If you’re one of those Forgotten Americans who is sick & tired of hearing that Donald Trump is a ginormous asshole, which option is likelier to result in your hearing LESS about this particular issue over the next four years?

(a) Re-electing Trump
(b) Electing someone different
Despite the extraordinary amount of time I have spent calling Donald Trump a ginormous asshole, I TOO am sick of hearing about how Donald Trump is a ginormous asshole! I would love to go 24 hours without considering that such a ginormous asshole is in charge of the United States.
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25 Sep
COUNTERPREDICTION: Both parties will declare victory and there will be no net change in support for either side.

This conclusion is supported by literally every Presidential debate of the last two decades.
Neither Trump nor Biden is anything close to an unknown quantity at this point. Everyone knows what they’re going to get. And everyone knows whose vision they prefer.

There’s really nothing to be gained from watching them go head-to-head & call each other liars in real time.
D: I was planning to vote for Biden, but the man who has lied 20,000 times just called him a liar so now I don’t know

R: I was planning to vote for Trump, whom the Democrats & the MSM have accused of lying 20,000 times, but Biden just called him a liar again so now I don’t know
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