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Trump has never been ratioed (more comments than likes) on Truth Social before - he just was here. There is something different going on here and an anger that's lasted longer than normal. Can't fully predict the future here, but this is not typical MAGA dissent. This seems like it will leave a wound
Even if most of the MAGA base goes back to forgetting about this, just 10-20% not doing the same would have a real impact
I don’t want to get my hopes up, but there is a very real possibility that there’s a lot of cognitive dissonance building up in the base between what their parents and society taught them was being a decent fucking human being and all the stances they’ve had to rationalize in order to believe they’re right to have supported Trump. That tension makes them unhappy and makes them double down on the more immediate, more personal decisions again and again.
But once you give them an out, a way to justify a correction to say “well I was for him when he was just ‘telling it like it is’ but now that I found out he’s a pedophile, well now mama didn’t raise me to let a sin like that slide…”
I’m hoping this breaks open the floodgates.