r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 16h ago

Soft Paywall Obama Breaks Silence on Trump’s ‘Unimaginable’ Presidency - “Imagine if I had done any of this,” the former two-term president said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obama-breaks-silence-on-trumps-unimaginable-presidency/
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u/WilliamMButtlickerIV 10h ago

It's fucking terrifying how true this is. My step dad, who otherwise is a very smart man, had been sucked down this rabbit hole. I told him about the Fox News court case, and he just brushed it off. The cognitive dissonance is so huge, they will ignore all facts to reconcile their beliefs.

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u/ThatEvanFowler 8h ago

I have the exact same thing with my Mom. She just doesn't believe me. Not about their repeated admission under oath that no rational person should take anything on their network as fact, not about the billion dollar settlement for lying about irregularities in the 2020 election. She thinks that the fact that she has never heard about it on Fox News means that it's not true, rather than yet another example of Fox refusing to tell them what is going on. It's a goddamn nightmare. And round and round we go.