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In reply to the discussion: I talked to another Trump voter yesterday. His brain is on pause. [View all]Novara
(6,115 posts)But I do think a lot of people can be peeled off by the overwhelming facts and when indictments start happening.
When the DOJ starts indicting people and convictions start coming, there's an air of legitimacy the legal system confers that the hearings - as good as they are - can't. Right now, the hearings are designed to tell the story. And they are doing a fantastic job. However, there will be more legitimacy and a "huh, there must be something to this" when the DOJ starts indicting the people close to the top. Hopefully there will be perp walks.
Remember Watergate? The revelations of the hearings shocked people. The arrests convinced people there was real criminality. Granted, we didn't have a crazy faction insisting on a nonexistent reality back then, but people's minds began to really be changed when arrests were made.
However, people need to prepare themselves that it isn't likely the orange fuck will be indicted until lower level people have been, and they begin to talk and deal to save their own asses. This is going to take time. They won't deal until they feel reality pushing them into a prison cell. Right now they don't. See: Navarro. When everyone at the top who was involved have been indicted and rumors circulate that people are giving each other up, then they'll talk, and only after that will they arrest the orange fuck. They'll protect each other and him until they realize it's better to give everybody else up.