Trump politicized Covid at his 3/28/20 "hoax" rally. From that point on, every position the Right has taken on Covid...from masks to vaccines...is in political opposition to their "enemies".
Eradicating Covid through vaccination is not only a political victory for Biden...1/
...but it highlights the homicidal mismanagement of the pandemic by Trump. Therefore, the Right is politically/tribally *required* to oppose the vaccines.
If Trump was in office, the Right would be vaccinated at levels that mirror or exceed Trump's support/approval levels...2/
...and the same people who are demagoguing the vaccines, and all rational efforts to procure "herd vaccination"....would be falling over themselves promoting Trump as the greatest president in history for his stewardship of vaccine development/roll out...as evidenced by MTG: 3/
Instead, these sociopathic opportunists..... who live for and exploit conflict and chaos.....are endangering their own constituents: 4/
I recently came across an exchange discussing Trump's withdrawal of troops from Syria where Trump was not only trying to avoid accountability for his actions, but gaslight a narrative where he attempts to take credit for a situation he created/exacerbated....9/
The exchange was not relevant to Covid mismanagement/death, but was also relevant to the insurrection: 10/
"Since the elections are rigged, and therefore delegitimate....political power no longer lies in those who can gain it by vote........it lies in those who can take it by force."
"Since the elections are rigged, and therefore delegitimate....political power no longer lies in those who can gain it by vote........it lies in those who can take it by force."
Yes, potentially, as analyzed here: "Another factor may be that by believing in conspiracy theories, people allow themselves to embrace two cognitively dissonant ideas....(Narcissism and Victimhood)"....1/
When people legitimately believe the election was stolen, it becomes "patriotic" to take it back by force. This is why five years of Trump's pathological dishonesty was so corrosive and dangerous to the country :
When people legitimately believe the election was stolen, it becomes "patriotic" to take it back by force. This is why five years of Trump's pathological dishonesty was so corrosive and dangerous to the country: 2/
People legitimately believe the country was stolen because they've been groomed/conditioned to avoid/disbelieve any information that did not originate within the Right Wing Media Echo Chamber (thread on the Firehose of Lies" disinformation campaign): 3/
While aggregating threads/articles for a book project, I came across a 9/30/19 thread responding to Trump retweeting "pastor" @robertjeffress stating there would be "civil war like fracture" if Trump was held accountable for high crimes & misdemeanors. 1/vox.com/policy-and-pol…
The thread pointed out that Trump had made cryptic insinuations about "civil war" six months earlier in a March interview with Breitbart....2/
"I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of Bikers for Trump. I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough...until they go to a certain point, & then it would be very bad, very bad". 3/ thehill.com/homenews/admin…