turingtest
Mistral, mistral wind...
The same people who were parroting the "short form vs long form BC! Anomalies in the scan! " memes a few years ago without really understanding (or caring about) the technical issues involved are the same ones, going forward, who will be blatting "Dominion! GOP observers not allowed!" for the next few years, and again without having any real clear idea of what they're talking about. And that ignorance is what the GOP, as an establishment, is counting on to win those future elections, and why they're not more forcefully calling out Trump's shenanigans of the last three weeks. I would almost bet that, in two years, candidates for office in places like my own Mississippi, as well as Florida, the Dakotas, etc., will be running on slogans like "remember the steal of 2020! I supported Trump! MAGA!" And, of course, two years after that...
Trump didn't create this base for which evidence-free allegation is a perfectly good horse to saddle- that base was always there, and he just showed how it's possible to ride to victory on a horse named Innuendo. And the GOP has taken note; it's not necessary for Trump himself to be a candidate for them to decide that a winning strategy is the only thing that counts. Is it true? Who cares? Is it dividing the country, possibly beyond hope of repair? To the party who called Obama the "divider-in-chief" when he commiserated with Trayvon Martin's parents by saying "that could have been my son," this sort of irreparable division is a feature, not a bug, of their strategy of Politics By Meme. The idea is to inflame their base, not inform them.
Trump didn't create this base for which evidence-free allegation is a perfectly good horse to saddle- that base was always there, and he just showed how it's possible to ride to victory on a horse named Innuendo. And the GOP has taken note; it's not necessary for Trump himself to be a candidate for them to decide that a winning strategy is the only thing that counts. Is it true? Who cares? Is it dividing the country, possibly beyond hope of repair? To the party who called Obama the "divider-in-chief" when he commiserated with Trayvon Martin's parents by saying "that could have been my son," this sort of irreparable division is a feature, not a bug, of their strategy of Politics By Meme. The idea is to inflame their base, not inform them.
