The strat is, always has been, and will continue to be:
Step 1: accuse the enemy of doing the thing
Step 2: do the thing
I have a MAGA family member who, when confronted with the possibility that detainees in El Salvador were already being mass culled, their response was that the democrats already did that with the covid vaccine.
Their base can’t be upset about anything Trump does, because they’ve been convinced that it has all already been happening in secret by the deep state for years. That is the strategy. They will live in an alternate reality up to the point that it directly affects their livelihood.
So what they accused Obama of doing in 2010, got it.
The strat is, always has been, and will continue to be:
I have a MAGA family member who, when confronted with the possibility that detainees in El Salvador were already being mass culled, their response was that the democrats already did that with the covid vaccine.
Their base can’t be upset about anything Trump does, because they’ve been convinced that it has all already been happening in secret by the deep state for years. That is the strategy. They will live in an alternate reality up to the point that it directly affects their livelihood.
Back then we hadn’t fully realised how unrelentingly they project.