The MAGA rank and file seem to be short on critical faculties. Top-tier MAGA apologists do have critical faculties, but their ideological agenda - or what they claim to be a higher truth - takes precedence over accepting demonstrable facts.
When I saw "the intellectual case for Trump" and suchlike emerging, I recognized a kind of reverse intellectual snobbery at work. People smart enough to be able to recognize that Trump is ignorant and stupid, as well as aggressively selfish and amoral, pour great energy into sanewashing and sanitizing his words and deeds, as they fancy themselves to be wiser and more perceptive (and more deeply moral) than all his critics, and therefore able to see the virtue and genius that others fail to understand.
That's so spot on. Exploring how a MAGA thinks...is a little like watching a trainwreck that you can see coming. It's enthralling, you see the disaster heading our way, but you can't really do much about it because the forces at play seem greater than you alone can resist.
There are so many curious (to me anyway) aspects of this. 1) Our ability to see that if Obama or Hilary did or said what Trump does...they would be 180 degrees out from what they let Trump get away with 2) Perhaps more importantly....they cannot seem to see this in themselves 3) They accuse of us doing the very same thing without realizing the irony
I'll tell you straight up....that if Obama, Harris or Biden claimed they could lower or have lowered prices by 1500%...I would IMMEDIATELY question their intelligence, competence and skillset for handling the job of POTUS. If they claimed it twice (like Trump has) on completely separate occasions...then I would question the people they've surrounded themselves by who didn't feedback to them that what they're claiming is impossible.
I mean that...and I'm sure you feel the same way. I tried this argument with a MAGA friend of mine...and they simply ignore it and probably claim I'm "just saying that for the sake of winning an argument"
It's both fascinating and horrifying at the same time.
The MAGA rank and file seem to be short on critical faculties. Top-tier MAGA apologists do have critical faculties, but their ideological agenda - or what they claim to be a higher truth - takes precedence over accepting demonstrable facts.
When I saw "the intellectual case for Trump" and suchlike emerging, I recognized a kind of reverse intellectual snobbery at work. People smart enough to be able to recognize that Trump is ignorant and stupid, as well as aggressively selfish and amoral, pour great energy into sanewashing and sanitizing his words and deeds, as they fancy themselves to be wiser and more perceptive (and more deeply moral) than all his critics, and therefore able to see the virtue and genius that others fail to understand.
That's so spot on. Exploring how a MAGA thinks...is a little like watching a trainwreck that you can see coming. It's enthralling, you see the disaster heading our way, but you can't really do much about it because the forces at play seem greater than you alone can resist.
There are so many curious (to me anyway) aspects of this. 1) Our ability to see that if Obama or Hilary did or said what Trump does...they would be 180 degrees out from what they let Trump get away with 2) Perhaps more importantly....they cannot seem to see this in themselves 3) They accuse of us doing the very same thing without realizing the irony
I'll tell you straight up....that if Obama, Harris or Biden claimed they could lower or have lowered prices by 1500%...I would IMMEDIATELY question their intelligence, competence and skillset for handling the job of POTUS. If they claimed it twice (like Trump has) on completely separate occasions...then I would question the people they've surrounded themselves by who didn't feedback to them that what they're claiming is impossible.
I mean that...and I'm sure you feel the same way. I tried this argument with a MAGA friend of mine...and they simply ignore it and probably claim I'm "just saying that for the sake of winning an argument"
It's both fascinating and horrifying at the same time.
That's true sadly.