People get so invested in believing certain things especially when it comes to Trump they simply won’t consider anything else.
From election night until now Trump and a lot of his key supporters have preached about the voting machines being rigged or hacked, I believed too at one time.
I spent 38 years in the IT world, the last 20 doing router and switch configurations using Cisco Systems equipment, I worked at one of their support centers for almost 2 years.
I know what it takes to hack thru routers and firewalls.
I have no doubt the elections around the country have been rigged, just not the way many of these people believe, by challenging the conventional thinking the true believers resort to insults, which is fine.
The other thing I believe is that not every election a MAGA candidate loses is rigged or stolen, some are just bad candidates and in some cases the MAGA movement is toxic and people want no part of it, New Hampshire appears to be one of those places.
I also believe in order for the Republican Party to remain relevant there must be a truce between the MAGA wing and Establishment wing of the party, otherwise Republicans will continue to lose elections they should be winning.
That infuriates a lot of people on FR.
“The other thing I believe is that not every election a MAGA candidate loses is rigged or stolen, some are just bad candidates and in some cases the MAGA movement is toxic and people want no part of it, New Hampshire appears to be one of those places. I also believe in order for the Republican Party to remain relevant there must be a truce between the MAGA wing and Establishment wing of the party, otherwise Republicans will continue to lose elections they should be winning.
That infuriates a lot of people on FR.”
A lot of people would rather double down on being wrong than admit that they may possibly be wrong.
The conservative echo chamber doesn’t help. Remember all of the talk about a “red tsunami” in 2022? It was a constant drum beat in the conservative media and social media. It completely discounted or ignored the impact of Roe being overturned was going have.
I think MAGA is not a majority. Trump will get more votes in red states than he got last time but that won’t help in PA and WI or MI.
Look at recent elections in those states. The GOP has been mostly shut out. But that gets ignored in favor of another poll showing Trump winning. The lessons of 2016 about how accurate polls are seems to have been forgotten now that we like what the polls show.