I have just enough sympathy to feel why MAGA is upset by it.
He’s a strongman or, at least, was, in their eyes. Some of them still. But if the strong man calls you strong for a long time, then calls you and everyone that is in you group weak, something is a lie. And MAGA certainly believes they can’t be weak, liberals are weak. So Trump is putting MAGA in the same group as liberals, AND trying to cover up a conspiracy raged by Trump and his inner circle ?
Paradoxics are by nature required for a group like MAGA. But this isn’t just a paradox. This is a grand insult to what they hold as the Truth (the Truth that they believe things should be as).
It’s the same as your favorite author, or actor, or singer, or whatever idol you have personally saying “you’re just as shitty as everyone else.”
Unless I’m incredibly mistaken, they’re feeling anger that needs to be directed somewhere, and we should definitely point the fact that Trump himself called them weaklings. Not another member of his regime. Not democrats or liberals. It was Trump.
After all, it DOES take a wild measurement of “strength” to be his supporter.
Oh, I think I get it, too. They operate on a whole host of bad impressions about the world. They believe a lot of tropes such as liberals being snowflakes, and that conservatives are more numerous, and so on.
To have the very guy they worship come along with a great big pin and pop one of those most precious of balloons is going to cause a lot of cognitive dissonance, to be sure.
The reason there hasn’t been a coup is that they actually are weak, and like to cower behind an authoritarian leader who will do the things they daren’t.
…and yet if you want to see examples of extreme snowflakes, look no further. Ironic that they’d get butthurt over being called weak.
Did I say ironic? I mean all too predictable…
I have just enough sympathy to feel why MAGA is upset by it.
He’s a strongman or, at least, was, in their eyes. Some of them still. But if the strong man calls you strong for a long time, then calls you and everyone that is in you group weak, something is a lie. And MAGA certainly believes they can’t be weak, liberals are weak. So Trump is putting MAGA in the same group as liberals, AND trying to cover up a conspiracy raged by Trump and his inner circle ?
Paradoxics are by nature required for a group like MAGA. But this isn’t just a paradox. This is a grand insult to what they hold as the Truth (the Truth that they believe things should be as).
It’s the same as your favorite author, or actor, or singer, or whatever idol you have personally saying “you’re just as shitty as everyone else.”
Unless I’m incredibly mistaken, they’re feeling anger that needs to be directed somewhere, and we should definitely point the fact that Trump himself called them weaklings. Not another member of his regime. Not democrats or liberals. It was Trump.
After all, it DOES take a wild measurement of “strength” to be his supporter.
Oh, I think I get it, too. They operate on a whole host of bad impressions about the world. They believe a lot of tropes such as liberals being snowflakes, and that conservatives are more numerous, and so on.
To have the very guy they worship come along with a great big pin and pop one of those most precious of balloons is going to cause a lot of cognitive dissonance, to be sure.
The reason there hasn’t been a coup is that they actually are weak, and like to cower behind an authoritarian leader who will do the things they daren’t.