Brian Tyler Cohen is right. There's no one for whom the far right has more disdain than it has for its base. They will tell them absolutely any lie there is. I would say they're underestimating the intelligence of their base, but the far right know their base better than I do, so I'm probably not the right person to tell them they're wrong.
One of Cohen's videos today was about a communication Juan Merchan sent to both sides the day before Trump was found unanimously guilty of all charges in NY. The communication was about a social media post that said "my cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted." Sean Hannity and other Foxes were all over this, suggesting that this proved that the "fix was in" against Trump. What Hannity and his pack of Foxes either didn't know, or chose not to report, was that the post came from some guy named Michael Anderson, who is a renowned, and self-proclaimed, "shit-poster," who likes to invent things that he posts to create commotion. OMG: Trump allies try to get mistrial… INSTANTLY regret it (youtube.com) Presumably, that's his idea of fun. But Cohen's point, which he generally makes with some frequency, was that people like Hannity and his Foxes love to spew this kind of thing into the air, because it riles up their base, which is what they intend to do. Cohen even recalled the $700+M fine against Fox for making false accusations against an automated vote-counting system, and he categorized it simply as Fox's cost of doing business. But in any event, communications like any of these, with strategic omissions, are based on the far right's (seemingly proven correct) assumption that they can tell their base absolutely anything, and enough of the base will believe it, no matter how preposterous.
Whether Mark Robinson is being manipulative that way, or he's just a dimwit or nutcase, is unclear. It depends on something no one but he can know: does he actually believe what he says. Clearly, he needs a much better understanding of the factual history of WWII, unless he already has one, and knows he's making this nonsense up. But that's not for me to know. I know what he says. I don't know what he thinks. Although he did express highlighted skepticism about George Patton's having died in a car accident, as if it's inconceivable to him that anyone ever dies in a car accident.
I certainly agree that Joe Biden is his own worst enemy. But it's sort of impossible to imagine that he, or more or less anyone, would lose an election to Donnie Trump, certainly at this point. The first linked article seems strongly to suggest that Robinson can't win in NC. I can understand why some people would be opposed to a Communist government. But MLK Jr as a Communist? Robinson is in some orbit I can't track. And I hope he realizes that his opportunities came from the work MLK Jr did, and the fact that he gave his life to do it.
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