Pepe wrote:
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Democrats are doing a ‘very sinister thing’
07/02/2021|4min
Democrats and left-wing media personalities are equating being a Donald Trump supporter to being an “absolute lunatic QAnon supporter,” according to Sky News host James Morrow.
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_622 ... er%20thingGiven Trump's notorious inability to distance himself from conspiracy theorists, coupled with his continual allegations of electoral fraud in recent months (so far with no supporting evidence), I am not in the least surprised. The only real question is whether the distinction is really being made solely by Democrats, or by everyone who isn't on the political far right.
Trump continually spouts nonsense, he's also willing to fan the flames for more extreme talking heads when he should be damping them down. The problem there is, once a voter accepts the principle that BS is somehow automatically more correct than anything "mainstream", it's very hard for them to distinguish between the various BS streams in terms of danger or ridiculousness. 50/50, possible, possible-but-unlikely, almost entirely unlikely, most definitely paranoid and utterly tinfoil hat all merge into one great sea of "non-mainstream so it MUST be true". And Trump has been a champion of that, he's very keen on undermining the credibility of everyone but himself with gossip, speculation and other forms of fact-free 'shade'.
The difficulty for Republicans will be separating the genuine political concerns of most Trump supporters back out from the hysteria that's been generated by Trump himself and the more extreme political and religious commentators who've been orbiting around him. It's by no means clear how they're going to manage that.