So, the Mother Of All Rallies didn't quite live up to the billing, and actually finished second (out of two) behind the Juggalo get-together in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
First - I think it tells something of a story when supporters of Cult45 use the same rhetorical construction as Saddam Hussein's information guys.
How is your Daddy State any different from all the other Daddy States when your speech and your behavior line up so closely?
It's nothing short of gob-smacking to see so many people so thoroughly unaware of the self-mockery at work here.
Second, this is the real point:
It's estimated that fully one half of 45*'s "followers" on Twitter (eg) are not Meat Space Occupants. You know - people.
That "crowd" of about 1000 screwballs on The Mall yesterday is what happens when each of those self-isolating confirmation-bias-driven individuals is convinced there're millions more just like him.
I'm hoping we're starting to get a handle on the weird irony of just how dangerous it is to get sucked into believing this tiny, otherwise harmless, band of zealously credulous fringe-dwellers represents anything even remotely resembling some kind of "majority".
They don't. And they keep giving us good examples of the fact that they don't.
Read this one from Greg Fish:
Maybe it’s because the Republican Party, the group that claims to represent them, their ideas, and their interests, is no longer their party, what it calls conservatism is just an angry hodgepodge of grievances and scapegoating, and its leader is a shiftless, amoral populist whose political career is just a publicity stunt that spiraled completely out of control. Even worse, its base seems to display an almost cultish devotion to him, hanging on his every word, ready to turn obvious missteps into tales of victorious triumph over their many enemies. And conservative leaders warning fellow Republicans of this are in denial of how it got this way and just how angry and entitled their base has become at its core.
But don't forget this little wrinkle: the whole thing gets a lot worse a lot faster if Kris Kobach makes any real progress in his efforts to suppress the vote, cuz that makes it look like these idiots are in the majority, and all they really want is to believe what they're told.
First - I think it tells something of a story when supporters of Cult45 use the same rhetorical construction as Saddam Hussein's information guys.
How is your Daddy State any different from all the other Daddy States when your speech and your behavior line up so closely?
It's nothing short of gob-smacking to see so many people so thoroughly unaware of the self-mockery at work here.
Second, this is the real point:
Live shots from the pro-Trump "Mother of All Rallies" going on in DC right now.— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) September 16, 2017
...Turns out bots can't rally. #MOAR pic.twitter.com/AO8nboy4pM
It's estimated that fully one half of 45*'s "followers" on Twitter (eg) are not Meat Space Occupants. You know - people.
That "crowd" of about 1000 screwballs on The Mall yesterday is what happens when each of those self-isolating confirmation-bias-driven individuals is convinced there're millions more just like him.
I'm hoping we're starting to get a handle on the weird irony of just how dangerous it is to get sucked into believing this tiny, otherwise harmless, band of zealously credulous fringe-dwellers represents anything even remotely resembling some kind of "majority".
They don't. And they keep giving us good examples of the fact that they don't.
Read this one from Greg Fish:
Maybe it’s because the Republican Party, the group that claims to represent them, their ideas, and their interests, is no longer their party, what it calls conservatism is just an angry hodgepodge of grievances and scapegoating, and its leader is a shiftless, amoral populist whose political career is just a publicity stunt that spiraled completely out of control. Even worse, its base seems to display an almost cultish devotion to him, hanging on his every word, ready to turn obvious missteps into tales of victorious triumph over their many enemies. And conservative leaders warning fellow Republicans of this are in denial of how it got this way and just how angry and entitled their base has become at its core.
But don't forget this little wrinkle: the whole thing gets a lot worse a lot faster if Kris Kobach makes any real progress in his efforts to suppress the vote, cuz that makes it look like these idiots are in the majority, and all they really want is to believe what they're told.
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