Republican voters would rather lose the 2024 election than concede liberals were right about Trump
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Proud Boys are right about one thing: It's ridiculous that Trump's not in prison. In her most recent Contrapoints video, YouTuber Natalie Wynn talks about what she calls the "bigotry whirlpool," which helps explain why radicalized people tend to dig in deeper, even as the personal costs of doing so mount higher.
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She points to people who have lost marriages, been fired, or otherwise paid enormous personal costs, all because they couldn't, for instance, stop ranting about how they hate trans people on social media. The higher the costs become, the more they dig into their hateful beliefs, because otherwise they have to admit they gave it all up for nothing. The bigotry whirlpool effect is in play with MAGA. They're just so wrong that they can never admit it without terrible shame, and so the costs they'll pay to avoid that are unbelievably high.
This is why Trump will be the GOP nominee in 2024. If Republican primary voters could humble themselves and think strategically, they would realize he's very likely to lose again in a rematch with Biden. But saying that would be tantamount to admitting that it was probably a bad idea to back a grifting, sociopathic reality TV host in the first place. Most Republican voters, at this point, would rather lose the 2024 election than concede liberals were right about Trump in the first place. And they will soothe their hurt egos with more lies if that happens, by saying that Biden "stole" it again. Anything but dial down their egos by entertaining the possibility that they were wrong.
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https://www.salon.com/2023/04/24/egos-over-freedom-proud-boys-trial-proof-maga-will-pay-any-price-to-avoid-admitting-they-were/
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