Now that Trump himself appears to be taking this as seriously as he’s capable of, how exactly are the deniers rationalizing his public statements away? Reading coded q anon messages into his words?
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There’s nothing to rationalize. Their support isn’t based on anything rational it’s more like supporting a sports team
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Rationalizing has nothing to do with reason or rationality, but with consistency. Striving to maintain internal consistency is a strong feature of cultish belief patterns. They actually work very hard to rationalize.
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But if you work backwards from the conclusion then anything can be rationalized. That’s how religion works too

