I think part of it is that the average professional political person doesn’t realize the depth to which the right wing has gone insane unless they are really tracking the people the MAGA right is interacting with on Twitter (BAP, etc) - @sharonk.bsky.social talks about this a lot
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It really demonstrates why it was so easy for Trump to take power when all the people paid to watch for this were asleep at the wheel.
And it's clear they are in a bubble of their own making, when their entire job is to look outside the bubble.
Now following both Sharon and you.
It should have been obvious that eventually the true believers would demand the Apocalypse that they were promised
When we eventually dig ourselves out of this, we need concrete steps of how to deal with threats to our democracy
I always go back to that quote from a Trump voter who got screwed by some thing he did: “he’s not hurting the right people”
They think *their* treats will be fine. All other can fuck off
And then they’re very surprised to discover that it’s just across the board cuts on the table, not the selective ones they really want
The success of a conservative politician depends on if their base sees them as deserving to rule, nothing more