Nah, "It's a witch hunt, that video is an AI deepfake, and its disgusting the deranged radical leftist loonatics would even try this, I'm not even going to watch it" There is no act or crime he can commit that they will care about, their devotion to him defines their reality and is the cornerstone through which every other life experience and piece of information is assimilated into.
The Republicans are a party of warhawks. It's a political tool for them. When a democrat is in office, war bad, when a republican is in office, war good.
He won't stumble into a war, he will start one. He's been going on and on about "buying" Greenland and the Panama Canal. When they refuse to sell themselves to the devil, what do you think is going to happpen?
Where have you been the last nine years? They literally will not allow themselves to believe anything negative about him. The tape will be a fake, deep state conspiracy meant to take down their favorite president. It wouldn’t matter one bit to them.
Trump could give every single one of his rally attendees, no matter the age, a full pearl necklace on national television, and his support numbers would go up.
It’s not even just “dumb”, it’s also willful ignorance. Some are dumb, sure, but for most accepting reality would be too impactful to their worldview/ego.
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u/claimTheVictory 1d ago
You know what they say.
A live boy, or a dead girl.
No one wanted to say "a child", because I do think that's beyond the pale, even for his supporters. Not all of them, but enough of them.