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In reply to the discussion: Damage control? He's 1 point above approval needed [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)to fight off OUR attack. I'm guessing you're not overestimating their ability to react like us so much as vastly underestimating their fear and resentment of us and loyalty to their group and leader. At least, according to what I've read.
For a long time now, their dominant ideology has been opposition to liberalism and Democrats. Or how about Shia socialists as some have started calling us?! Whatever our label, the more conservative, generally the more they know we're the giant internal threat who replaced the commie threat of the Cold War era. That demonization justifies everything they do. Most aren't all that crazy, of course, but caught up in all this. Nixon and W were abandoned by some increasingly over time but only by the whole group when they finally were seen as "losers," unable to validate them and defeat us.
My best guess is that those "three top things" would work on some who've already become wobbly but still need to decide we're the lesser problem. So I'm wondering if the most effective three top things wouldn't actually be about us. If only we could.