The strange Republican world where the big lie lives on and Trump is fighting to save democracy

[Demovictory9]

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But DeSantis and fellow travellers at this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, see themselves not as dismantlers of democracy but its saviours. In their worldview, the true danger comes not from former president Donald Trump’s “big lie” of a stolen election but a radical left minority imposing socialism, cancel culture and “woke” ideology on the majority.

Welcome to a parallel universe where it is common cause that Trump was spied on by rival Hillary Clinton, the January 6 insurrection was a heroic stand by patriots, and names such as Anthony Fauci, Justin Trudeau and Black Lives Matter are guaranteed to elicit loud boos.

It is a universe where Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association, an organisation accused of illegally diverting tens of millions of dollars for lavish personal trips, and which tried and failed to file for bankruptcy, can still be feted when he boasts of a record 5.4 million first-time gun buyers last year.

And it is universe where Trump still reigns supreme, his face emblazoned on toy money and Superman images, his name stitched into souvenir badges, hats, hammocks and T-shirts that proclaim “Trump 2024”. Bids for a 5x5in painting by Michael Shellis depicting the former president kissing the Stars and Stripes opened at $3,000.

components of the parallel universe

1. voter fraud is real/ Trump really won
2. alternet view of Jan 6th events
3. Protecting America from "wokeness"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-strange-republican-world-where-the-big-lie-lives-on-and-trump-is-fighting-to-save-democracy/ar-AAUliGA

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. As the cult slowly shrinks it gets more extreme and bizarre. . . . nt

[Scrivener7]

2. Some indictments would help dispel that.

[Snoopy 7]

3. 11-20%

Let me start with this on average approximately 12-20% percent of our population are regular voters. So even if trump only has 11-20% of the voters 100% will vote. The Independent and Democratic Party have the additional votes. The problem is the two Parties only manages to get 10-18% of the party to vote. Why(?) no one know but it seem everyone is out there saying I don't need to vote I already helped get rid of trump. But, we all know that's only the beginning. The Democratic Party believes they need "dirt" on the republican party to win races. They have lost their way to message because they don't have the media. The media is now owned by the oligarchs who want more money so they finance the republican party and dirty, call it like it is, democratic Party members. The "money is speech" SCOTUS decision is crap what it truly is just legalized BRIBERY. Now get off your A$$ES AND VOTE...

[Chainfire]

4. Trump has earned the high privilege and great honor

through his tireless efforts, in the support of the concept, that we should, from here forward, discard the word "lie" and replace it with the word "trump." It is time to recognize his contribution to the world.