I noticed *some* push back on this and the third term shit which I have never seen before over there. Once you involve people's finances, things are different.
I think you're pretty on-the-nose here. The slight push backs amongst the MAGA base have happened several times since 2016, but it follows a pretty clear pattern: some epoch related to Trump's words, actions, or policy decisions occurs that clearly flies in the face of sense and reason; the spin team (Hannity, Tucker, et al) needs a few days to hobble together some rationalization for why it's actually a good thing, leaving a brief moment where Trump's base only has what's left of their ability to critically reason to navigate their opinions and conversations on the matter (where they're at now); the spin team then releases their newest talking points in unison, complete with the necessary goal post movement and cherry-picked examples to adequately assimilate the administration's actions neatly into their framework of reality; the MAGA base unflinchingly abandons the pursuits of their critical reasoning in favor of these talking points and re-galvanizes within their new Overton window that has subsequently shifted even further right.
While I agree it's nice to see pushback, it's only because they haven't gotten any updates to their Heritage Foundation think tank propaganda programming. The second Twitter's bots start posting bullshit "counterpoints" to common sense, they immediately adopt it as if they came up with it the entire time.
It's happening now with the "tariffs are good actually" where some morons are saying how this'll curb unnecessary spending like computers, phones, and gaming consoles.
You know, consumerism. The thing that drives the American economy.
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u/LunarFocus 22h ago
I noticed *some* push back on this and the third term shit which I have never seen before over there. Once you involve people's finances, things are different.