This fits well but I’m missing the specific aspect where all the information that would have avoided being fooled is readily available, even being disseminated widely. A deliberate closing of ears. Well, maybe there’s a separate proverb about that.
To go back to Trumpism, a good example is this cartoon (from 2016 for crying out loud). And while the cartoon itself isn’t factual information, it reflects that people already knew all this back then. Soon after, Mary Trump and Tony Schwartz basically went on tour talking about it/him (and separately predicted Jan 6 btw: “He won’t go willingly”). And he proved all of them 100% right during his first presidency.
This fits well but I’m missing the specific aspect where all the information that would have avoided being fooled is readily available, even being disseminated widely. A deliberate closing of ears. Well, maybe there’s a separate proverb about that.
To go back to Trumpism, a good example is this cartoon (from 2016 for crying out loud). And while the cartoon itself isn’t factual information, it reflects that people already knew all this back then. Soon after, Mary Trump and Tony Schwartz basically went on tour talking about it/him (and separately predicted Jan 6 btw: “He won’t go willingly”). And he proved all of them 100% right during his first presidency.