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I'm not buying this headline.
Trump "fans" don't criticize him - ever. If they disagree or don't understand what he is doing, they say he is playing "4-D chess." He has presumed infallibility. He can do no wrong.
The Truth Social trend is not the result of real critical thinking on the part of Trump fans. It has to be robots or something else. Those fans don't turn on him.
They certainly turned on him when he tried to suggest that maybe they could think about wearing masks and vaccinating during covid, the backlash of which promptly put him back onto anti-masking.
I think he's more of an idol (in the "religious idoltory" sense) than an actual person to them. He plays to their same un-sensibilities, but it looks like the very few times he's tried to stray even slightly from the accepted rhetoric he's been put back in line. He bends over so quickly though that it's totally reasonable that anyone thinks those were his positions all along. Strong man my ass.
Yeah, he got in trouble for favoring abortion in the case of rape and incest as well. But I think even then, his fans think he's just pandering to get votes. "He doesn't really mean it, he's truly on our side, he's just playing that 4D chess again."
I'm telling you I think they believe he's really brilliant. Like so many steps ahead of everyone else that you couldn't possibly know his grand scheme. A master tactician.
After all he has to fight pedophile Satanists who've been operating in broad daylight faking school shootings and planes flying into buildings, who sit at their Hollywood parties drinking adrenochrome with their foul friends, while the elites fly through Denver airport to meet in the Binderburg group at Bohemian Grove, to formulate the new world order and the cashless society and will cause them all to wear the number of the beast.