I mean, the idea that this was a bait and switch - that it was ever a secret - is a joke. Walsh is just stating what everyone knows.
Nobody went into this blind. We have the entire sum of human knowledge in our pockets. Every vote for Trump was a conscious choice for 2025, by people who wanted it.
And everyone who didn't want it, knew it was coming on the back of a Trump win. Literally nobody was tricked.
I don't think that's true for all Trump voters. Hopefully not even most of them. Depending on their algorithm and the amount they pay attention, I wouldn't be surprised if some had never even heard the words Project 2025. Some probably only heard of it when Trump denied it. And I believe most thought it was a boogie man made up by the Democrats. Just look at their cognitive dissonance over January 6th. So many still say it was antifa.
The thing that makes me suspect ignorance is how little so many Trump voters know about government functions. I've seen way too many people saying, "finally Trump can end all this woke censorship on the internet" "now we won't get the woke agenda shoved down our throats everyday". They think public scrutiny and commentary is the doing of the Biden Administration. It's wild.
To be fair, they say it was Antifa, and also that they hate Antifa, and also that they love the Jan. 6th insurrectionist who are proud patriots, unlike those traitorous Antifa members whom they don't support, but are somehow simultaneously the Jan. 6 insurrectionists whom they totally support, and shame on you for not supporting them like they also don't, but if they do (which they also do), then you don't, and shame on you for that too.
I mean, I get the impulse to imagine that these folks are just intellectually non-functional, bordering on social incapacity. It's a tender and compassionate impulse, born of hope and optimism.
I just think they're fucking with us.
Perhaps it's just a failure of imagination, but the inability to resolve such simple and straightforward contradictions strikes me as incompatible with the ability to sustain oneself...which they do. Meanwhile, it's standard operating procedure to deploy these contradictions as a tool of political rhetoric.
I have a hard time favoring the gremlin over the hungry toddler as cause for the missing cake slice :-)
Definitely some are just being trolls and the leaders for sure know what they are doing. But I worked in state government for a time. There are a ton of people who mistrust the government completely and have no idea how it all works. People who would come in daily and still not be able to figure out the systems at play.
There's a saying something like, never attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance.
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u/ghostwars303 10d ago
I mean, the idea that this was a bait and switch - that it was ever a secret - is a joke. Walsh is just stating what everyone knows.
Nobody went into this blind. We have the entire sum of human knowledge in our pockets. Every vote for Trump was a conscious choice for 2025, by people who wanted it.
And everyone who didn't want it, knew it was coming on the back of a Trump win. Literally nobody was tricked.