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Whats in the water in Trump country?: MSNBC panel baffled by conservatives refusal to accept MAGABomber evidenceSome supporters of President Donald Trump have simply refused to accept the fact that Cesar Sayoc Jr. the MAGABomber was a Trump superfan who had attended at least one Make America Great Again and watched Fox News.
Once youve got a certain segment of the population kind of believing that there is no fact theres no such thing as truth its just about, you know, their belief in Donald Trump, she explained. So they believe the messenger no matter what he says.
Its a very scary place to be, and probably a long conversation to be had about how we got here.
You know, I dont think that there are any facts we could show some people in this country at this point that would convince them of a narrative that they dont want to believe, she continued.
That is the most dangerous, perhaps, thing that Trump is doing in this era, the former prosecutor concluded.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/whats-water-trump-country-msnbc-panel-baffled-conservatives-refusal-accept-magabomber-evidence/
Initech
(100,080 posts)Hugin
(33,162 posts)It's oxycotin in the water.
frogmarch
(12,154 posts)that a person don't know what to believe anymore
is what I heard a rally goer tell a reporter (CNN, I think) yesterday.
yardwork
(61,649 posts)pretzel4gore
(8,146 posts)This all began long ago, and rooted in the self righteous ignorance that reluctantly defeated slavery in Civil War for example, or exterminated the bison (to destroy the first nations) ...the news has always fortified the MAGA idea, but ...has anyone here even considered the effect murdering FDR had on us- the pure evil of so much of what them bastards did! And the ease of just grooving along! Trump simply exposes them...
empedocles
(15,751 posts)however, the news cycle is continuing to be very frustrating to them. The MAGABOMBER inevitably goes deep into the redstate news cycle. The stock markets are spiraling, mostly downward. Mueller/ flipping/corruption news is inexorably unstoppable. And, with all these trump news setbacks - some support is weakened.
Even from the pessimisstic side, avid trumpers will have to choose, and some will be on each side, between, 'Magabomber hero' and 'magabomber barely happened'.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)which is the default sound bite for too many of our Democratic politicians when terrible things happen. Call the Republican wingnut-enablers and their media machinery out and defeat them. You cant unify with people who wont believe today is Saturday just because a liberal says so.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)yardwork
(61,649 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)It was that Arab Jewish guy back a couple of millennia, I believe.
Or as my Dad used to say, You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. The horse analogy is particularly pertinent.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)Hope they keep up the BS and keep licking Trumps shoes. The REST of the World knows the truth......