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    4 months ago

    Trump related, there is no coherent rationale

    this is what most people have the hardest time with. everyone needs to drop the assumption that anything ever needs to make sense to republicans. normal people, most people, need things to make sense. 100% not the case with republicans. when you have the capacity to replace actual reality with whatever bullshit fantasy reality trump happened to pull out of his ass just now, then everything that comprised your world before that moment goes away. there is no contradiction, no “cognitive dissonance.”

    like you said, it’s about the money and the power. it seems like it should be more than that, but it’s not