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    8 days ago

    The 4D chess of it all is, publicly criticizing Trump now sounds the same as Fox News and MAGA have sounded since Obama took office 15 years ago.

    The strategy has always been to declare all these terrible things are already happening and make the public numb to hearing this rhetoric. Then later, when they take office, they can just do those things and the public doesn’t know how to react, because half the population was already mentally there. You say “Trump is corrupt! He’s destroying the country!” and people just say, “mhm, the president is corrupt, what else is new?” and go back to scrolling social media.

    It’s the end-game for the Whataboutism strategy that the GOP has been leaning on for decades.