They said this was going to create a rift among chuds. I was told I was being a bad leftist for not giving them the benefit of the doubt and seeing their humanity.

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    people saying it would turn trump’s supporters against him were way way too optimistic and dont understand how trump’s supporters work. he said it’s fake so it’s fake, that’s all it takes, he’s their savior and only hope so they’ll take any excuse to keep supporting him.

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        It’s going to take a lot more than this. It’s going to take Trump being dead for x number of years that the number of believers dwindles to the diehards that never shared anyone’s reality anyway. And that’s just what it will take for them to stop believing whatever post online isn’t really him like some sort of Q-adjacent afterlife of ghostposting.

        Then after that all the other things they’ll have to admit or unlearn. It’s massive. And they are old. So a lot of them will just die and that will be that. But there’s young ones too. They could cling for decades.

        And that’s just Trump, assuming there is no-one to take the reigns of his legacy and go with it allowing them to continue without the vague retrospection they might get if their savior dies and their leaderless movement flops about.

        It’s fucking bleak lmao jokerfication

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          And who’s to say that, even if his reputation is thoroughly destroyed, it won’t be restored some day? It’s a common sentiment on the right to view Nixon as an unfairly maligned man.

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      I mean, it objectively has turned some Trump’s supporters against him. I didn’t see anyone was saying there’s been some seismic change.