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I get that these people have demonstrated time and time again that they are intellectually malleable and have short attention spans, but this was the cause celebre for years. The immunity to cognitive dissonance is astonishing.
a lot of trump's hardcore supporters really are secularized evangelicals who either perpetrated or grew up in the moral panics of the last 40 years: satanic panic, anti-queer anything, banning hip hop records. that demographic has been swimming in cognitive dissonance their whole lives.
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