Sorry if this is the wrong community for this. Not sure where else to put it.

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        I have family that are fully on the maga train. There is no coming back from that. Will a few snap out of it every now and then? Sure. But there will be no way to unbrainwash them on a massive scale.

        How deep these people are down the rabbithole… and they have zero desire to listen to anything else. Trump could physically punch them in the face and they will find a way to avoid blaming him.

        They are losing most of their social security and had their snap benefits decreased by almost 50%. Their faith in trump is all they have. Their faith in Christianity. Trump is another god to them and there to save them. And nothing you say or do will convince them otherwise.

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    This is like me admitting to wiping my ass after I’ve taken a shit. I mean we all know what they’re doing, they know what they’re doing, their supporters knows what they are doing. There’s no point in pretending that not almost everyone realize this. The tiny minority that are too stupid to know that Trump is full of shit is completely inconsequential.

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    Well yeah.

    It’s also the reason he told Republican in Congress to tank the strongest Border Security bill in decades in 2024 after Republicans realized, “Oh crap, Democrats are actually going to vote Yes on it!”

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        Right. As it was, the entire party almost imploded following their commitment to overturning Roe. They learned their lesson that can only dangle solutions to the fears of their base, maybe address a symptom here and there, but never provide true solutions to the root problems.

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    Is it though? Maybe this is just a reflection of our society if we’re able to be baited so easily?

    I don’t like the guy but he did what he knew would work and now he’s president.

    It’s our fault for voting like this and for being idiotic easily persuaded masses.