07-03-2024, 06:44 PM
(07-03-2024, 11:00 AM)Dill Wrote: "By overstating it" is a non-answer to the question of HOW such an event could be overstated.
Your 1-100 scale is just a numerical metaphor expressing your impression that the first coup attempt in history, based on a delusion of millions of voters
which continues to the present and massively alters the shape of current US politics, was not all that.
Nevermind that one consequence of attempts to hold Trump accountable is the ruling of Trump's SCOTUS that presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for any action which could remotely be construed as part of of their "core duties"--effectively writing protection of Trump into law. Another consequence of "first" coup whose effects you've dismissed as "four years ago."
If Trump supporters were swayed by a lie, then their beliefs were not "legitimate." Perhaps you meant "sincerely." I'd agree with that. And that's still a serious problem.
Nothing in my quoted statement suggests it's "MAGA types" alone who are ready to reinstall Trump because they have not grasped the implications of the coup. Attributing to me a position which I haven't taken and then calling your attribution MY "complete blindness" is just a tactic, not an argument.
As is positioning yourself in some "middle" between people who think the coup was immensely consequential for US politics and people who think it was not all that, while arguing it was not all that.
If the lie was believable their beliefs were legitimate. All of this is extremely consequential to you because you're a "our democracy is at stake" doomsayer. Most people don't subscribe to your point of view. And rightfully so, IMO.
