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No, trust me, I get it.

Maybe I am doing some sort of circular cope or something myself. I have spent a lot of time (too much...) considering how much I should "care" that liberals only care about the dogshit when their face is rubbed in it. When the dog has actually been shitting all over the carpet for years and they never cared.

Part of me thinks "Finally! Welcome!" But then I see they have no actual push back. They just want the spectacle, I suppose, of pointing out the obvious. Then I go "Ok, well, that's still better... than not? I guess?"

Either way it feels incredibly shitty because no one with any amount of institutional power seems to care about the rhetoric at the core of the movement. I am absolutely fine and happy if they call out Nazis doing hate symbology in public... with the condition that they recognize those symbols are directly tied back to the laws they want to pass (and have passed).

Some libs "get it" to an extent. Many still seem incredibly shortsighted and only focused on Trump. He seems to be self-aware of this (maybe giving him too much credit though) and that's why he leans into the third term thing repeatedly. Give them a spectacle and something to obsess over... something that isn't analyze any of his executive orders, stated goals, laws he wants, etc. Not a unique analysis there either by me.