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It takes some next level cognitive dissonance to read an article where a republican party chairman is noted as confirming the story, and then respond by saying
by taxicab 6y ago
It takes some next level cognitive dissonance to read an article where a republican party chairman is noted as confirming the story, and then respond by saying that it's all a Democratic hoax.
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoI haven't a clue whether it's true or not - Trump himself could even admit it and it doesn't make much difference. I'm saying that the article and general character of these types of allegations fall in line with the previous four years of frantic searching for the magic phrase or story that'll finally banish Trump. It's more desperation than reporting.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoRepublicans were like this with Obama (birtherism). "Bush derangement syndrome" they called it with W. Republicans were like this with Clinton. I don't remember it before that. But it's been growing worse and worse with each president since Clinton.
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoI suspect it’s the historic levels of party disaffiliation. Since parties largely lack an ideological foundation and their constituencies aren’t attached, they need to portray things as pure disaster and make clear will-to-power arguments, cast their opponents as devils, etc.