Fresh from peddling conspiracy theories about Vice President Kamala Harris using artificial intelligence to create fake photos of large crowds at her rallies, former President Donald Trump has now come up with a new gambit: suing the United States Department of Justice.Fox News reports that Trump is...
  • Coelacanth
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    4 months ago

    It’s easy to understand once you accept a couple of premises about a large part of the republican base:

    1. They’re fundamentally uneducated and unintelligent.
    2. They’re essentially brainwashed by their media consumption
    3. They approach politics like football: “This is my team, and I love my team. My team is good because it’s my team. The other team is bad because it’s not my team.”
    • barsquid@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 months ago

      I think there’s a more fundamental thing with your item 3. They are fascists. The one thing they value most is white supremacist hierarchy. They do not give a single fuck about truth or integrity if those conflict with supporting the hierarchy.