"... the president's strategy is to get his people to suspend disbelief in their common sense ...

[Demovictory9]

about 31:00 on the video

"... the president's strategy is to get his people to suspend disbelief in their common sense and not to budge an iota, not a micromillimeter from his "perfect" call, "everything I've done is perfect" and can't allow people to budge from that because if they start asking "well how wrong was it?" and evidence comes out then he's lost his last line of defense"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1002

[backtoblue]

1. He is Cambridge Analytica personified

Constant disimformation, threats, lies, and overall shit-stirring.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. An abusive narcissist or sociopath

Does this kind of game with thier victim to control them,get them to not trust thier own eyes and thoughts. Trump is doing that to his base,and America.

[Thekaspervote]

3. He needs to listen to Abe Lincoln

B4 becoming president, while doing his traveling lawyer gig, he told a kind woman that he knew was guilty (no reference here to dotard) that the side window would be open the night before the trial. She was never found.

[Claritie Pixie]

4. People who have low self esteem are prime targets.

[cutroot]

5. It doesn't take much of a strategy. They are already programmed to receive the message.

He simply throws a bone and gives them a false narrative. The bone is just a general camaraderie of disdain for anything they deem contrary. The narrative is never proven or disproved. Tossed on the heap it is quickly forgotten.

[struggle4progress]

6. "In for a penny, in for a pound"

He didn't have to fool some of them very much at first; and afterwards, those people willingly fool themselves

"'I did that,' says my memory. 'I could not have done that,' says my pride. Eventually, memory yields"