How Republicans will retcon the past to try to reelect Trump

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EJ Dionne
@EJDionne
I didn’t know the term “retcon.”
⁦@paulwaldman1⁩ explains: It’s short for “retroactive continuity,” in which “existing stories are retroactively rewritten to accord with a new and contradictory story someone wants to tell.”
He applies it to the GOP.

Opinion | How Republicans will retcon the past to try to reelect Trump
Whatever good happens on the pandemic and the economy, they'll say, was all Trump's doing.
washingtonpost.com
9:49 AM · Dec 24, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/23/how-republicans-will-retcon-past-try-reelect-trump/

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When you’re in the midst of a difficult period — as we are now with omicron raging, inflation disturbingly high and President Biden’s domestic agenda hanging by a fraying thread — it can be difficult to imagine a future in which present problems have worked themselves out and everything is looking positive.

But you know who has imagined that different future? Republicans. And they’re already putting the pieces in place for a gigantic retconning project, in which the history of the pandemic and the U.S. economy will be rewritten to justify the return of Donald Trump to the White House.

This may be the best way to understand the former president’s newfound enthusiasm for touting coronavirus vaccines, which has shocked some of his most loyal supporters.

“I came up with a vaccine,” Trump boasted in an interview released Wednesday to right-wing media personality Candace Owens. Despite Owens’s disagreement, Trump insisted that “if you take the vaccine, you’re protected” and “people aren’t dying when they take the vaccine.”

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[Cracklin Charlie]

1. I think zero.

Why would they want him back?

They might retcon him, but I think doubtful on any return. He looks bad.

[WA-03 Democrat]

2. Preach it Donny

“Trump insisted that “if you take the vaccine, you’re protected” and “people aren’t dying when they take the vaccine.”

They will tell the truth I guess which will negate their lies. Super Genius indeed!