• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s your basic herd mentality. A lot of Republicans were actually starting to turn away from Trump, but now that someone’s attempted to assassinate him in their minds it means he was somehow “right” all along. Keep watching, regardless of who the shooter was or what his motivations may turn out to have been, the hard right will continue to frame it as a “liberal conspiracy” and use this as some kind of warped twisted justification to make Trump into a new dictator for life.

    There’s no logical reason for it. Trying to find one will just make your head hurt. The only real reason is that someone tried to hurt “their team” and now they will unite to own the libs even if it destroys the whole country

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      2 months ago

      It will also give trump license to have private security decked out in combat gear at his side 24x7. It obviously gives off wannabe dictator vibes, but now it’s “justified”.

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        2 months ago

        That is assuming he will ever make another public appearance after this… I’d say there’s a good chance the rest of his appearances are via heavily scripted professionally edited videos