The thing non-MAGA politically-attuned America needs to accept and internalize and factor in to anything like this is that elected Republicans, GOP operatives, and right wing sensationalists have determined - correctly - that they can tell their audience *quite literally anything* and they will believe it.

In recent years it feels like we’ve collectively developed this totally useless response habit where they could say “The moon is made of cheese” and we spend a week fact-checking, re-re-re-re-re-re-proving it’s false, and it changes no one’s mind that needs to be changed.

Not saying I have the antidote to this, IJS whatever we’ve been doing is not working and it’s terrifying to see how out of control so many free-willed supposed grownups are in America.