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I'll believe it when I see it. Last I checked, 25% of Americans (not Trump supporters, all Americans) professed that they will follow Trump literally no matter what he says or does. That was years ago. This cult is propaganda-driven, so that number is probably higher now.
I’m deep in the trenches, this is the biggest crack since Jan6th. All Teflon Don has to do is shut up, do a sham investigation. Blame the dems, greta, literally doesn’t matter they’ll believe anything but he just can’t help himself from self sabotaging it’s glorious.
And yet J6 became a rallying cry and purity test. I've seen too much to be too hopeful that this will amount to more than that. Shed a few from the margins, galvanize those who stick with it (most of the supporters). I hope I'm wrong.
Yes he pulled it back but there was a brief moment like this in the fog of war before they got a narrative out where people were scrambling. But here he’s even hilariously failing to set a narrative given multiple chances, and it is a much bigger deal to most maga than something like democracy (when ‘dems cheated anyway’). Even after J6 they weren’t saying they’d felt betrayed and burning hats.
It’s over for him, at least among the qanon / techbro crowd. Unless he folds and releases something soon.
Source please
Source is they made it the fuck up.
77.3 million voted for Trump in 2024 out of a population of about 342 million.Not even 23% of all Americans voted for Trump in 2024.
It was a long time ago I read that. This is the closest thing I could find, saying 6 in 10 Trump supporters proclaim they will never stop supporting him no matter what: https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/17/politics/trump-approvers-never-stop-approving-poll
Edit: on reflection, I may have done some rough estimating to get from 6 in 10 Trump supporters to about 25% of America overall.