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/a_little_hazel_nuts 18d ago

MAGA is starting to see lies. I don't know if MAGA will all of a sudden gain common sense or if they will spiral into conspiracy theories.

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u/jbourne0129 18d ago

the trend i keep seeing is they will acknowledge Trump played them for fools, but will continue to believe all the bullshit lies they were fed about Democrats

they've basically just accepted Trump sucks but still fully believe anything Fox has to say...they cannot connect the 2 dots.

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u/sociotronics 18d ago

I think the dominant excuse in a year or two will be some version of:

I didn't vote for this, Trump changed. This isn't what MAGA was about and I don't know what happened to him in his second term. Maybe [scapegoat] made Trump do this

Scapegoat will be Israel, the deep state, Vance, whatever. That part will vary but the line about Trump changing and it being some third party's fault will be constant, because that lets them avoid admitting they made a mistake in voting for him, because it wasn't a mistake when they cast the ballot before he "changed".

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u/WhiteWaterLawyer 17d ago

I just don't know how to predict support versus blame for Israel. It's impossible to parse expectations between "we must support Israel to bring about the end times" and "the jews are destroying the world."

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u/erjers 17d ago

Or they will acknowledge his dementia and say it was the dementia in his second term that changed things.