Why Republican voters say there's 'no way in hell' Trump lost

[Nevilledog]

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Jennifer 'the people have decided' Rubin
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Why Republican voters say there’s ‘no way in hell’ Trump lost https://reut.rs/3pKXqz1 this is why "reaching out"and "showing respect" is ludicrous with this segment of his base. They are irrational and not acting in good faith.

Why Republican voters say there’s ‘no way in hell’ Trump lost
Brett Fryar is like many mainstream Republicans. A 50-year-old chiropractor in this west Texas town, he owns a small business. He has two undergraduate degrees and a master’s degree, in organic...
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9:11 AM · Nov 20, 2020

[Aristus]

1. I don't care how many degrees this hamhock has.

If he is a chiropractor, he's already a soft-boiled whack-a-doodle...

[sakabatou]

2. They're fucking cultists, that what!

[FM123]

3. Yep. Trump brainwashed them in advance not to accept his "loss".

Trump grooms his supporters like pedophiles groom their victims. Sick!

[Shermann]

4. That's the problem with sticking your foot in the Door to an Alternative Universe

Somebody else may come behind you and kick it wide open.

That's what this is.

[Squinch]

5. Because they're gullible imbeciles.

[Caliman73]

9. Not necessarily gullible. They WANT to believe.

Gullible implies that the subject is naïve or overly trusting. Trump's supporters already have specific beliefs about the world. Trump just came in and told them that they were correct in language that the GOP was tip toeing around but never said directly. These people want to believe that there is some sort of shady cabal of people who run pedophile rings and plot with illegal immigrants to make their lives difficult. Trump embraced those conspiracies to pull them in. Even though he utterly detests his own followers, they are attached to him.

What needs to happen for this to be mitigated, is for right wing media to somehow be eliminated. We have always had division and we have had partisans. The GOP used the Southern Strategy well despite there not being a right wing media, but can you imagine what Nixon could have done if there were an entire media ecosystem telling half the country that Nixon was doing nothing wrong? I seriously doubt Watergate would have taken him down if Fox, the thousands of right wing radio stations, and right wing internet were around.

They are being fed nothing but lies.

[dchill]

6. They're so glad they have Trump.

They never really liked that long-haired Jesus guy. Too much bullshit about loving thy neighbor. Who even thinks like that?

[JHB]

7. I guess 4 years of slavish RW media devotion to Trump...

...on top of four decades of its scandal- and fear-mongering and nonstop vitriol about Democrats has an effect.

No one could have foreseen such a thing.

[SWBTATTReg]

8. Ah, trump's favorite group, the morons of America!

[Solly Mack]

10. Back when OAN first launched, I noticed it on the "guide" and tuned in to see

At first blush I thought it had to be satire. A couple minutes more and I was laughing in an "Oh, shit. They're serious." kind of way. Then I stopped laughing because, "Oh shit!. They're serious!".

There is no reaching out and for damn sure no showing of respect for people like that.

Not even for those who watch Fox. The people at Fox probably envy the crazy at OAN - or they are glad to not be the biggest wackadoodles out there. Fox looks like actual news compared to OAN - it's not, but it looks like it compared to either OAN or NewsMax.

[TheBlackAdder]

11. On FiOS, there's no way to block those channels. You can set profiles, but need to keep activating.

.

Every time you power off the cable box, it resorts back to the default view.

You need to manually activate the view profile each time. There is no way to set a default view.

.

[Solly Mack]

13. I haven't been able to block it on my system. I just avoid it now.

[Mme. Defarge]

12. People can rationalize ANYTHING

to get what they want. Be it for reasons of pride or lust or greed or need to belong. But it does not excuse them for not doing what is right or doing what is wrong.