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But it’s like pointing out a whole in a 9/11-truther conspiracy theory. They’ll just have another (possible contradictory) conspiracy theory to fall back on. They back Trump being they feel secure when someone says, “All your problems will be solved if you just do what I say.” Everything beyond that is a rationalization. They don’t care at all if he tells the truth.
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That’s the idea and that’s why you want bystanders. With something this cut and dried, it fits the plan for the bystanders to hear the Drumpf support as a 911 truther or other person wholly lacking in credibility.
No one is usually going to cry uncle. But one or more of them will go home and cry uncle later. Gotta do it one person at a time.
Drumpf supporters don’t like to feel foolish in public. That’s part of why they’re Drumpf supporters in the first place.
I am unconvinced that anyone who would publicly support Trump is capable of being made to feel foolish.
That’s okay. It’s counterintuitive and maybe hard to imagine if you’ve not seen it work with conservatives in their natural habitat.
The impulse to identify with Drumpf is often a desire to identify socially with a signifier of strength that negates feelings of shame.
If the imaginary strength is socially exposed as imaginary, then what’s left is shame. No one usually wants more shame.
I think it’s a reason that comics like Colbert are kryptonite to people like Drumpf, Limbaugh, and so on.
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