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5 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The more mealy-mouthed GOP apologists for Trump's fraud claims treat the perception, the *feeling* that the election was fraudulent as prima facie evidence.

As always, the right does everything they falsely accuse the left of, and they pursue it to the hilt.
Like, of course the "facts don't care about your feelings" crowd would stoop to this, because what they really want is a world where *their* feelings ought not care about facts. And that's all its about: ego spiralling wildly out of control.
That's the unshakably attractive fantasy Trump has always sold them: a world that bends to their will, where they never have to hear a word they don't like, where what they say and feel is always true and determinative.
A world where they never have to show consideration for anyone they don't already care about, a world that bows to them. Logically, of course, such a world is even more impossible than a world where everyone is a billionaire, but the aspiration is much the same.

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Katherine Cross Profile picture
5 Jan
Indeed, that's why the US has failed in its COVID response. Too *much* planning.
Honestly, this argument gets worse the longer one stares at it. The US has had a markedly *de*centralised approach to the pandemic. A lot has been left to the states, and even different cities and counties in the *same* state may have different policies.
I won't stand here and pretend that central planning has no limitations, but the US has applied far too *little* of it in this crisis, and where power *was* centralised, it was not with the "bureaucratic elite" but in the hands of people like Jared Kushner and his pals.
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2 Jan
This is why I've always vehemently disagreed with those who assert Trump is some kind of secret evil genius who only pantomimes his buffoonery. There are smart, progressive people who *still* believe this!
The buffoon who hides his sinister cunning behind a "wot, me guv?" panto act is definitely a type in politics (see: Johnson, Boris). But it's not Trump. He *is* actually as catastrophically incompetent as he appears to be, incapable of planning, much less executing one.
The pandemic was an issue no one had preconceptions about, because it was completely new. Most people knew what they thought about Trump re: immigration, say. But Trump and COVID was obviously novel. It was an opportunity for him to dramatically reset the story of his own gov't.
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Katherine Cross Profile picture
30 Dec 20
Remember, this was the signature audit many of the right wing conspiracy theorists were screaming for. They'll either say nothing, or come up with some ridiculous argument that the audit was itself fraudulent. The goalposts will always move.
Some earnest reformers, as well as moderate Republicans speaking in bad faith because they're too cowardly to tell the truth, claim that the conspiracy-mongering can be cured through transparency, audits, and investigations.
This, of course, pretends that any of this was about *facts* in the first place, as opposed to power.

Nothing. Not. A. Thing. will persuade the average MAGA maniac that they're wrong. There'll always be another excuse, another bit of sophistry to paper over the latest loss.
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Katherine Cross Profile picture
20 Dec 20
Imagine, if you will, a world where seatbelts did *not* come standard in every motor vehicle, where they were largely unregulated, there was a run on them leading to hiked prices, and everyone was suddenly asked to get one at once. You might see some gaps in compliance.
This is, and always has been, the problem with this argument. Instead of calling for police intervention, masks should be free, widely-available, and handed out at every opportunity. In front of stores, at bus stops and railway stations...
I've said it a thousand times already, but the way this pandemic has made nominal progressives clamour for cops, violence, and punishment is *deeply* alarming. In part because this is a crisis that should cater to the strengths of liberal and leftist policy alike.
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Katherine Cross Profile picture
20 Dec 20
I've seen a lot of people angry about this, but this sort of thing is inevitable. You have to give people notice about lockdowns and transport closures; if you don't, you strand people (which can promote viral spread). If you do, this bunching happens.
And I do ask the people who are furious about this: Are you proposing gunning them down? Because that's about the only way you could alter these inevitable crowd dynamics. People will want to go where they feel safest--rationally or irrationally.
From a policy perspective, the best thing to do is to account for the inevitability. But you can't avoid it; it's a natural human response to what is, always, a frightening announcement. dw.com/en/coronavirus…
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9 Dec 20
Another point that I neglected to emphasise in my thread last night: hard as it is for a lot of folks on here to process, most people who are flouting public health advice are generally doing so in good faith. And there's been no effective response to that.
What I mean by that is that they either don't realise they're flouting anything *at all*, that they have misjudged their personal risk, that they're working on incomplete, or out of date information, and/or that they have misplaced their trust in certain authority figures.
This is even before you get to all the cognitive biases that make us poor judges of risk against an invisible threat in the *first place.* (Just another reason in a very long list of why this can't be left to individual initiative).
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