When people try to argue with me about how President Elon and Trump aren’t Nazis this keeps coming to mind. There is literally no more line between them and the Nazis, because they willingly and intentionally stepped over it after they paid off the supreme court to erase it.

[–] Wuorg@50501.chat 14 points 4 days ago

I think this is the biggest cognitive hurdle to convincing Trump supporters to stop supporting him. They'd have to acknowledge how abhorrent his actions and policies are and, since they tie their identity so much to this support, they'd have to in turn acknowledge how they willfully supported fascism.

It is already difficult to convince someone they are wrong. It is a whole other ball game trying to convince someone that their wrongness was catastrophic for their own country and countrymen.