• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I think they have a kind of understanding.

      The understand that they are wrong, and that the consequence of their wrongness is Trumpism. However, they also understand that if they were to acknowledge that they are wrong, they would lose power.

      For people like this, its more about maintaining individual power, than it is opposing fascism. Its the same for the apologists.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      They understand it completely, they just want to gaslit people into thinking its sane to support people who are actively hurting the ideas they swear to uphold.