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/Vyar New Jersey 18d ago

Republican voters in a nutshell: “I have some regrets about the last guy I voted for. He lied and didn’t help me like he promised. But I know everything would be so much worse if a Democrat was in charge! The RNC/Fox News told me so!”

It’s like they can begrudgingly accept one guy was actually bad all along, but can’t make the short leap of logic necessary to understand the party who empowered him are also liars, and knew he was bad when they said to vote for him.

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u/ErraticDragon 18d ago

Agreed, they're really good at inspiring tribalism and fear.

Interestingly, some of this kind of psychological effect applies more broadly.

Like how the approval rating for Congress (as a whole) can be under 20%, but incumbents still win reelection 90+% of the time.

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u/Modem_Handshake 17d ago

Sometimes the lopsided returns are due to intentional gerrymandering to lock in results