The piece from @LaurenDuca about Trump gaslighting America was spot on, but what strikes me most is how the right is doing it to itself.
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This account has posted this same comment dozens of times. It's not to try to convince me. It's reinforcement behavior.pic.twitter.com/niO5Dsu9sE
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Notice the co-opting of the fake news hashtag. What is his definition of Xenophobia? This is is narrative generation, but it's for the right
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The right *has* to believe that Trump's not xenophobic so they can continue a legitimate belief that what they're pushing isn't hate.
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The right is perpetrating on itself a series of goalpost-movings and perception changes so that it can believe itself to be a moral center.
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And not only that, but a moral center that has never moved since "when America was great." Like a cat in a sunbeam. But it'll be night soon.
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Lost SO of 15y+ to altright in w/was weirdest exp of my life. Isn't anything you're not understanding. They're just nuts.
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:( I am sorry to hear this
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Well, psychologist-me thinks of it as fascinating case study in cult indoctrination; cynic sees amazing irony & funny bits.
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Other perspectives, I don't like to think about too much.
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Same. It is what I suspected all along.
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