They literally don’t think too hard about it. Just feed them the next conspiracy line and they’ll latch on, no matter how hard it goes against the last one. “He was there because he was trying to stop it” was the approximate excuse I heard a few years ago.
A little Manifest Destiny don’t hurt nobody. Except for that one time. Well, maybe a couple times. Every time.
This was the one that made my qanon MIL buy a new phone last week because it finally got through her thick fucking skull what these tariffs were going to do. Enjoy those Mexico- and Canada-produced vehicle parts adding $10k+ to your base price.
Nobody in the US knows how marginal rates and progressive tax brackets work, you can sell the fools on anything and just blame the IRS because it’s the most convenient incarnation of what people hate.
The same moron who sunk casinos somehow