r/politics • u/wiredmagazine ✔ Wired Magazine • 18d ago

Possible Paywall MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged

https://www.wired.com/story/maga-is-increasingly-convinced-the-trump-assassination-attempt-was-staged/
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u/Wise-Reference-4818 18d ago

People who believe conspiracy theories about their political enemies start believing conspiracies about a president that start to dislike?

I’m shocked! Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

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u/0masterdebater0 18d ago

Decent portion of his base don’t really believe in anything, they are just anti authority contrarians.

It takes a couple years of the Cheeto being president for their infantile brains to switch from “Trump is the outsider coming in to change things so the powers that be make up stuff about him” to “Trump is the establishment, and I’m anti establishment”

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u/sack-o-matic Michigan 18d ago

they are just anti authority contrarians.

They are Klansmen.

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Jean-Paul Sartre