he's not painting an illusion, he's painting an alternate reality.
yes, of course what he says are knowing falsehoods, to technically they are indeed lies, but that's not the point.
he's not trying to actually deceive anyone. the fact that his lies are obvious is a feature, not a bug.
to deceive is saying "facts matter, but your facts are wrong, my facts are right," when of course you're substituting false "facts" for truthful facts.
but what donnie is doing is saying, "we reject those facts entirely because they don't suit us. we're going with this fiction instead."
this is how he gets away with it, because the whole republican party plays follow the leader and say, yes, we're going with those talking points instead of the truth. they're not really "deceived", the simply don't care about the truthful version of events, they only care about the "officlal" story as told by donnie.
they've been trained to believe that to do otherwise is to show disloyalty to donnie and to america.
the fact that it's obviously false *helps* donnie and republicans because it makes it clear who's on his side and who isn't. if you're not part of the cult, you say "that's false". if you are part of the cult, the thought that it's false doesn't enter your mind because it's not relevant.
so it helps prove loyalty and help cult members identify who is and who isn't in the cult.
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