They sure do. I was speaking with a leftie yesterday who was all verklempt over Hunter's trial. She broached the subject, not I. She was making ridiculous arguments that nobody goes to jail on gun charges, and that drug addiction isn't really drug "addiction", nobody has to fill out a form to buy a gun, etc.
I mentioned the illegal disposing of the gun, and some of the more disturbing aspects of the laptop, which she dismissed as Russian disinformation. When I mentioned that the FBI at trial confirmed the veracity, the response was "Well, I don't know about that, it would have been in the news."
I then brought up the railroading of Trump, again, the lack of an actual felony, the overturning of the statute of limitations for the sole purpose of going after him, the bias of the judge and his fundraising daughter, etc. and again, "Well, I don't know about that, it would have been in the news."
The lessons here are: The mockingbirds have the leftists in thrall, and, there is no point in talking to a leftist.
I have made better progress talking to my dog. Cognitive dissonance is strong with them. Trump is too old, mentally unstable, but xiden is sharp as a tack….
My favorite, that’s just ole Joe