“There is no way to spin that this is a good day for Donald Trump," one Democratic strategist said after Trump was convicted on all 34 felony counts in New York.
All those Republicans are gonna have to square their “law and order” worldview with voting for a CONVICTED FELON.
Why? Cognitive dissonance is their bread and butter. They wouldn’t be Republicans if they couldn’t believe two totally mutually exclusive things at the same time
Indeed, the idea that a party that has as its central tenets: more tax cuts for billionaires, more “free speech”, er cash, to buy off politicians, zero regulations and gigantic giveaways for corporations, is “for the little guy”.
I suspect that so many of them are so crazy and/or so angry is that all that cognitive dissonance which is required to hold those two contradictory ideas in their head has to drive them to distraction.
Why? Cognitive dissonance is their bread and butter. They wouldn’t be Republicans if they couldn’t believe two totally mutually exclusive things at the same time
They’re not smart people are they? Forgot about that.
Indeed, the idea that a party that has as its central tenets: more tax cuts for billionaires, more “free speech”, er cash, to buy off politicians, zero regulations and gigantic giveaways for corporations, is “for the little guy”.
I suspect that so many of them are so crazy and/or so angry is that all that cognitive dissonance which is required to hold those two contradictory ideas in their head has to drive them to distraction.