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The conservative news sphere is unfortunately largely impervious to reality and rational thought.
My boss is one of those "ultra Maga" lunatics. He likes to say "well, wherever you get your news isn't giving you the full story." I said "did you ever think that maybe you're being lied to by Newsmax?" He got very indignant about it. The notion that a Russian propaganda channel would lie to him of all people...
That's the thing; Dunning-Kruger is rampant among these people. And, it hasn't escaped me that it's mostly people with a Southern accent. The fact that the American South has some of the lowest education scores and highest rates of religion kind of tells you everything you need to know about who the civilized world is up against.
There's a reason Hitler had a hard-on for the Jim Crow South. The line between Confederate sympathizer and Nazi is razor thin.
The Venn diagram of confed simps and neo-Nazis is a circle, tbh.
Trump desperately needs swing voters in the upcoming general and looking at the exit polls from the primaries, he is in deep shit (even within his own party at times.) This does not serve that goal in any way outside that right-wing bubble, which is a huge problem for Republicans. Here's to Biden standing his ground.
The GOP always does poorly after they force a shut down in an election year though. They just dint know how to operate any differently
True, but conservatives are not the majority of Americans
Unfortunately, the electoral college exists, which means that isn’t as important as it should be.