Thread by @PalmerReport

The doomsday pundits spend every day reinforcing the narrative that Trump and his goons have a collection of magic wands for getting out of any situation. That way, whenever the good guys score a major win, the pundits can write it off by pointing to those supposed magic wands.

It's difficult to believe that any full grown adult could fall for such silly cartoon-like narratives. But that's why the pundits work so hard every day to scare you into accepting that these imaginary magic wands are real.

"The republicans will magically keep a 1/6 committee from ever happening!"

"The witnesses can just invoke privilege and they'll never be indicted for it!"

"The witnesses can plead the fifth and magically waltz away from their troubles!"

And of course their most-cited magic wand, "the bad guys will run out the clock!"

Nevermind that the 1/6 committee controls the timeframe of its own probe.

Nevermind that the courts were never going to let phony privilege arguments delay things more than briefly.

So it's understandable that so many of you can't see the 1/6 committee's huge wins as even being wins. You've been conditioned to believe none of it matters, because Trump will wave a magic wand and get away with it all. That's clinically insane, but that's what brainwashing is.

Throw in the fact that the doomsday pundits spend every day building the narrative that the good guys in charge are moronic cowards for not being willing to wave their own magic wand, and your expectations have been skewed a million miles from reality.

The committee refers a witness for prosecution, you think they're weak because they didn't magically throw the witness in the brig (not a real thing)

The committee wins a court battle, you think it's a loss because Trump has one appeal left (even though he'll lose that in weeks)

Bannon's court date is scheduled for mid 2022 because that's literally how criminal trials always work, and you think it's a loss because the doomsday pundits convinced you that the committee could just instantly open a trap door under Bannon if it really wanted to.

It's almost criminal the way the media and the pundits disinform you about what's real, what's possible, and how things really work, in the name of making sure that you see every win as a loss, so you'll remain scared and outraged enough to keep giving them attention.

The real crime is that if they convince you all that you're losing (even while you're winning), you're not going to bother continuing to fight battles. Most people can't gear themselves up to fight if they've been told they're going to lose no matter what.

Doomsday punditry costs us election after election, legislative battle after legislative battle, and on and on. Defeatism is our most dangerous and harmful enemy. We must learn to tune out the doomsday punditry if we're going to fight and win anything.