KayFabe: Why MAGA Doesn’t Care That Trump Is Lying
This one took me a while to fully understand.
For years I kept trying to explain Trump supporters the same way everyone else does. They are misinformed. They are in a bubble. They have been manipulated by bad media. If they just had access to the right information they would come around.
Then I found the research. And it changed everything I thought I knew about what is actually happening.
Because the problem is not that they do not have access to the truth.
The problem is that the truth was never the point.
The Research
In 2022, political scientist David Moon at the University of Bath…
The skinny
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