I don’t get how this guy still has support when his whole base was for releasing the files and he said he would. Now he’s going to pardon his accomplice?
I don’t get how this guy still has support when his whole base was for releasing the files and he said he would. Now he’s going to pardon his accomplice?
He’ll just make up some bullshit excuse, and they’ll twist themselves into pretzels in order to swallow it. Just like they always do.
Some will. Some won’t. The reality is that this is fracturing his base. That doesn’t mean his support is collapsing, but it is eroding. When you’re seeing people like Marjorie Taylor Greene openly turn against him, you know it’s serious.
But for the most part the ones who turn away from him won’t be loud about it. You won’t see them publicly recant, you won’t see them admit they were wrong. They’ll just get real quiet. And some of them might still vote Republican, but they won’t be as obsessive about it. They won’t be driving down to the capitol to risk getting arrested for him when he calls for it.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that none of this matters. It does. It just doesn’t look as exciting as we’d like it to.
If they still vote for him and his people, then none of it matters and they implicitly condone the actions
Until they stop voting for people who follow him without question, nothing will change