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34. I think it's because it can't be explained away.

Thu Nov 20, 2025, 12:15 PM

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I think of the (mercifully few) MAGATs I know. They're always moving goalposts, looking for false equivalencies, insisting that Democrats are twisting the truth or not telling the whole story. They just really really need to believe in Trump.

This is impossible to explain away. I imagine "nice" Christian women who normally twist themselves into pretzels to explain away Trump's bad behavior mumbling "Well, he shouldn't have said that." They'll immediately follow up with some false equivalency but there isn't one.

Even they can't pretend that Obama or Biden ever said something like that to a reporter.

It's kind of devastating in its simplicity.

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