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Donald Trump is turning liberals into conspiracy theorists
CNN Politics ^ | May 8, 2017 | Chris Cillizza, Editor-at-large

Posted on 05/08/2017 5:07:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Much has been written about how President Trump's election has had a profound impact on the Republican party. What's drawn less attention -- but deserves more! -- is how Trump is affecting Democrats.

Sure, we've seen coverage of how Trump's election has emboldened the liberal left whose call for confrontation at all times has become the rallying cry of the party. (This New Yorker profile of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer describes the rapid evolution from compromise to confrontation well.)

What's drawn less attention is how Trump's presidency has convinced liberals that every bad thing whispered about any Republican is, by default, true. Consider that in the last week alone, liberal outrage has been sparked on (at least) four occasions by alleged incidents that simply aren't accurate.

1. There was no health care vote beer celebration

As the House was voting on the American Health Care Act, Vice News's Alexandra Jaffe spotted cases of beer being brought into the Capitol. She tweeted about it....

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 115th; conspiracy; conspiracytheory; democrats; media; trump

1 posted on 05/08/2017 5:07:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Turning? I thought they were always conspiracy theorists


2 posted on 05/08/2017 5:09:24 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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3 posted on 05/08/2017 5:10:40 PM PDT by IWontSubmit (2)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I was most concerned by rumor #1 when I heard they were drinking Bud Light.


4 posted on 05/08/2017 5:12:39 PM PDT by Alt Right
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The party out of power has conspiracy theories.

That's the new normal.

Think of all the things the Bushes were accused of when they were in the White House: financing Hitler, smuggling drugs, killing Kennedy.

But notice -- the author does a pretty good job of showing how recent stories in the liberal media turned out not to be true.

If you just attack him because he's in the liberal media himself, you'd be missing something.

5 posted on 05/08/2017 5:18:50 PM PDT by x
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Next thing you know, if not already true, they will be loony enough to say that Trump was behind 9/11 and it was all a setup to get him elected 16 years later, because the tinfoil hat crowd says so.


6 posted on 05/08/2017 5:26:28 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

HOORAY Donald J. Trump. Thank you, sir.


7 posted on 05/08/2017 5:33:43 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: realcleanguy
# 2 Turning? I thought they were always conspiracy theorists. Yes, they always were, but I agree with the author - since HRC got 'schlonged' in the Presidential voting there is even MORE demented, unhinged, spin from the illegitimate presstitutes and the Dems individually. Thank you for posting. conspiracies among the far-left progressive coastal elites
8 posted on 05/08/2017 5:41:43 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

For liberals the sun coming up is a conspiracy.


9 posted on 05/08/2017 5:47:17 PM PDT by jmacusa (Dad may be in charge but mom knows whats going on.)
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As soon as you saw liberals lapping up that fake dossier of Trump in Moscow with the hookers, you *knew* their hate would cause them to believe anything. I kept asking “what does it prove?” That didn’t matter to them.


10 posted on 05/08/2017 7:54:49 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Get used to it - President Donald J. Trump)
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To: jmacusa
For liberals the sun coming up is a conspiracy.

Well, after all "sunrise" is an illusion. More at eleven.

11 posted on 05/08/2017 9:54:19 PM PDT by dr_lew (I)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No Chris, Trump is the catalyst that has forced the latent mental illness they have always had to the surface.


12 posted on 05/09/2017 5:10:09 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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The only thing Trump has done to Liberals is to unmask them.


13 posted on 05/09/2017 9:58:44 AM PDT by Maverick68
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