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How is not a big deal that a few thousand citizens were various levels of conscious and unconscious participants in an organized coup attempt?
by bogomog 2y ago
How is not a big deal that a few thousand citizens were various levels of conscious and unconscious participants in an organized coup attempt?
- scarab92 2y agoExplain Trump getting re-elected in 2024. As on-the-nose as the Democrats are, I don't think that would have been possible if the public thought he orchestrated a serious attempt at a coup.
- hackyhacky 2y agoThe public are misled, thanks to omnipresent right-leaning media and increasingly hard-to-penetrate echo chambers. In the immediate aftermath of Jan 6, even his fellow republicans called it a coup, until they changed their minds for political expediency.
- bogomog 2y agoExactly. And a certain amount of maga are still in favor of a coup, and then a certain amount of blissfully ignorant new voters.