There are those who believe that R voters support the Maricopa recount and voter suppression and future-vote invalidation efforts by Rs in swing states because they believe the Big Lie that the 2020 election really was stolen. 1/8
But those who “believe” the Big Lie at this point can only do so because it is *existential* for them to believe it-- that is, because they want and indeed have to believe it.
Consequently, it doesn’t really matter to them whether it is true or not at this point. 2/8
Consequently, it doesn’t really matter to them whether it is true or not at this point. 2/8
Mary Trump has said that we shouldn’t even try to understand her uncle. How much of it is lying on Trump’s part, how much of it is authoritarianism pure and simple, how much of it is narcissistic delusion? According to her, it is pointless to ask this kind of question. 3/8
Trump’s mind is too messed up for this kind of question to even make any sense--and never did, according to her. 4/8
Similarly, it is pointless now to ask whether R voters are deluded (that is, really believe the election was stolen) or are simply revealing themselves to be authoritarian fascists at heart. 5/8
On the question of whether the 2020 election was stolen, *both* these things are true, and really amount to the same thing. 6/8
Another way of putting this: *we* believe in a fact-based reality. They do not. For them, there is nothing beyond what they want to believe, which for them is a higher truth. 7/8
Did Hitler and Goebbels believe in *their* Big LIes? This kind of question misses the fundamental point. The truth is that both wanted to spit on our very notion of truth. So does Trump, and he’s got most of the R party following him as their cult leader. 8/8
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