I started telling friends around 2017 that they didn’t have to like Trump, but that if they posted their derangement against him on social media, it would eventually be a bad look. But I don’t think it was until Jussie blew up in their faces that most of them figured it out. Once Dave Chapelle mocked the story, they knew they’d lost the narrative on it.

After Jussie, I noticed most liberals stopped jumping on FAKE NEWS as quickly as they had been. They wouldn’t admit Trump was right about FAKE NEWS, but they basically acted like they needed to be wary, which is essentially the same thing, whether they are willing to admit it or not.

When Covid was launched, I think they were so desperate to believe in the TV again that many of them jumped on it as a way to be right again. And they really thought they had the moral high ground and The $cience on their side. It took a few years for that one to blow up in their faces, but eventually I think it wore almost all of them down. Almost like a law of diminishing returns thing. Think how hard it must have been for them to keep clinging onto their fear of Covid through 2022, after they’d had it a few times and knew it was a flu, and after watching all the normal people living life normally and being perfectly fine. Talk about demoralizing!