Cecilia H NicholsDec 6, 2022
Steven Beschloss
The thing is, the criminality of the last six years has been so visible and yet millions not only overlook it, they aggressively deny it and claim the Democrats are worse. It will be a long slog to get people to acknowledge they’ve been conned, but it will start with prosecutions.
Dec 6, 2022 at 12:39pmWeb
Show threadKFClintonDec 6, 2022

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Since TFG came down the escalator and began spewing filth, I often think of those who supported Nixon despite his obvious guilt. Then after Watergate they turned against him and pretended they never really supported him.

Show threadLacesDec 6, 2022
@KFClinton @StevenBeschloss This! The same people who will now call Dick Cheney a war criminal told me I was anti American and didn't support our troops twenty years ago for the exact same sentiment. Selective long term memory loss allows them to never be accountable or reflective.
Show threadKatragsDec 6, 2022
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Its the same 30% that supported the Nazis,, the Confederates, and the Loyalists. A mixture of psychopaths, angry failures, and rubes.
Show threadKFClintonDec 6, 2022
@Katrags I am reading David Corn's book. It reminds me with every word he wrote of the decades of horrific GOP actions.
Show threadMindy SchwartzDec 6, 2022
@KFClinton @StevenBeschloss I was working at the WH during the last few months of Nixon’s presidency. I was a life-long Democrat, but it was sad to see how heartbroken the people who believed in him, who put their lives on hold for him, were when they had to acknowledge the truth.
Show threadGeoff WilbournDec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss 🤔 most of the people that follow tRump will write off any prosecutions as part of the “witch hunt”
Show threadchetsimagesDec 6, 2022

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It is a lot easier for people to be conned than it is for them to admit that they have been conned!

Show threadCreative! Queer!! Autistic!!!Dec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss People tell me all the time: “It must not have been that bad, or someone would’ve done something about it.”
Show threadMaggyWDec 9, 2022
@n69n @StevenBeschloss numerous convictions of accomplices ? They are willfully blind
Show threadDr.Susan BushinskiDec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss I don’t think so- I think Trump will claim that evidence was planted, the FBI and DOJ corrupt, that it was politically motivated and he’s innocent and these always Trumpers will still be his supporters believing it all ( and we already saw a lot of this w/MarLago raid
Show threadMatt SchwartzDec 6, 2022

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Prosecution is important and necessary. However, it'll only move the needle with maybe 5% to 10% of his supporters.

What's more relevant is convincing the #Republican leadership to move on (by losing elections). Then the #rightwing media will push him to the side and the support will slowly dwindle over time.

Show threadChicagoSibDec 6, 2022
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Without consequences to the corrupt, even the most ridiculous suggestions become real threats to humanity.
Show threadOlafWipperDec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss ooh Persecutions, I love the sound of that, lots of persecutions of the arch criminal DJT!
Show threadMartin Vermeer FCDDec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss Or by getting mainstream media that are fit for purpose.
Show threadBshires1010Dec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss the #overtonwindow. Suggest such overtly extreme ideas to a society, that “lessor” once objectionable policies, become more tolerable.
Show threadBourbon StreetDec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss I believe the state and federal government has been so infiltrated by Christian Dominionists that believe they must take control of 7 mountains of society in order for Jesus to return we have passed the point of cooperation. We are at war and we need to prepare for it to become violent. Water & food shortages will become catastrophic do to climate change & corporate greed. Authoritarian fascist rule is their goal. Please educate yourself. #NAR #DOMINIONISTS. FOLLOW @JENNIFERCOHN
Show threadMaggyWDec 9, 2022
@dawnb14 @StevenBeschloss I know about them. They are all GOP. Stop voting for them ?
Show threadBourbon StreetDec 9, 2022
@MaggyW @StevenBeschloss The SCOTUS is at this moment trying to overturn a case so state legislature can call elections no matter what the voters of America decide. So in essence it's likely they will steal elections because gerrymandering is enough.
Show threadMaggyWDec 19, 2022
@dawnb14 @StevenBeschloss I know this is John Eastmans theory. Only a theory at this point.
Show threadBourbon StreetDec 19, 2022
@MaggyW @StevenBeschloss
I believe they will resort to violence. They will not stop trying. Its so many different groups that have come together with their own agendas with some not understanding what burning it all down will result in. Dark money wants Authoritarian Theocracy rule. No one will be spared under biblical rules.
Show threadnnookalaDec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss I think everyone supporting TFG has their own special interest in doing so. The minute they realize he is not useful for them, they will dump him.
Show threadChris CutlerDec 6, 2022
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Show threadJulia TDec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss It’s because there have been few prosecutions. That IS the problem!
Show threadDiamond JoyDec 6, 2022

@StevenBeschloss For 40+ years Rs have championed corporations, CEOs, and power brokers making deals and taking as much money as they can w/ no guardrails. 2008 still screams loudly. Ketchup declared a vegetable in the 80s. Hurt everyone without discretion.

There was never any accountability. Money is the power and it rules. Why would they be willing to accept responsibility now? It's been a fun free ride and karma isn't immediate.

Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Dec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss perhaps this is the only for my idiot nation to come to terms with being conned (with #Brexit).....Trials!
Show threadGradientU0Dec 6, 2022
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I think we are more likely to have to wait for a number of them to naturally expire than for them to realize the con and change their view.
Show threadDarth Kumsquat SquatsDec 6, 2022

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It was always about owning the libs, the Republican party and the entire right-wing echo chamber had no compunction about who that filthy corrupt messenger would end up being in 2016 even at the expense of a free election which ultimately suffered foreign influence.

Show threadLedermandDec 6, 2022
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I hate to say this but we were warned this was possible, because history is repeating itself. What is crazy it was a fascist and a dictator that warned us and the “greatest country in the world is not listening to him.
Show threadN. SinnottDec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss Prosecutions and convictions. Otherwise it will be deemed a witch hunt.
Show threadBenBDec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss provided that those that need to "see justice being done" retain and keep their trust in the institution, all but bit guaranteed at this stage, in fact I wouldn't be surprised by Police, Judges "Activists" actively blocking these prosecutions and turning "the wheel of justice" irrelevant helped by the elected red swarm inside House or Congress.
Show threadMistercazEEK94Dec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss -- It Has been a Long Slog, yes. If the news out of #Utah is true, things may be changing.
Deseret-Hinkley Poll of utah voters has tr*mp in 3rd of possible contenders for GOP nomination, more favor DeSantis, and Cheney than tr*mp. And according to The Hill the GOP Senators are mostly waiting to see if prosecutions will happen before they pick their horse.
Show threadLynn KellerDec 6, 2022
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Show threadRickDec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss I think people develop a blind spot when they become invested in something. The more invested, the bigger the blind spot. Con men know this and exploit it. This can't be a con because that would mean I was stupid and I'm not stupid, right?
Show threadMary M. RedouteyDec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss It will happen.
I still remember arguing with my brothers and telling them that going to War in Iraq would not be a good idea that the people there would view us as the aggressors and terrorists as we would be on their soil and it would cause us a problem in the future. They both yelled at me in unison, like creatures from the invasion of the body snatchers, "Moral Relativity" and were all for the War.
Show threadMary M. RedouteyDec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss I talked with one brother later on, about two years ago, and he acted as if he had never been for the War in Iraq at all. The crowd mind is powerful but once the spell is broken by overwhelming reality what was clung to so tightly will be abandoned like yesterday's newspapers now lining bird, rodent, etc. cages.
Show threadBadWolfLilDec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss They haven't been conned. They agree with the illegal behavior. They support it. Sure they deny it happened but that's just lip service. Inside they applaud it. They are not people who have been duped, they are willing accomplices. Deplorable.
Show threadSober-Wan KenobiDec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss Time is running out
Show threadCarol S.Dec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss As 1927 journalist Norman Angell once wrote, "...it is easier to bamboozle than to debamboozle."
Show threadChristian GrausDec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss it would all be easier if democrats were better. America needs a left wing party
Show threadVivian CreekmoreDec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss
I am optimistic! The most optimistic I've been in some years. Despite the attack on the power grid & other problems.
Show threadMary Ann HornDec 6, 2022
@StevenBeschloss . I certainly didn’t overlook it…my sense of safety was shattered with the November 2016 presidential election and may not ever return.
Show threadTrismegistusMxDec 7, 2022
@StevenBeschloss Democrats are like 70% cancer, depending on time in office. Republicans start out at 95% cancer and only get worse. We need chemo, and it'll show up in the form of a general strike.
Show threadAliSnarkbarDec 7, 2022
@StevenBeschloss It also ends when people see that everything they say that dems are doing, they are actually doing themselves. Accuse those of things which you yourself are doing. People need to see it for what it is, when enough people do, their reign of terror will soon be over.
Show threaddawnatellaDec 7, 2022
@StevenBeschloss some of them are so vehemently all-in on the crazy I fear they will not go down without a fight. And they’re the ones hoarding all the guns! Hope I’m wrong but when you visit the alternate universe and read where their heads are at it’s hard to imagine otherwise. These prosecutions can’t come soon enough, it only gets worse when criminals who ought to be serving time continue their radio shows and rallies, feeding Koolaid to their base. How is that even legal?
Show threadLCMacVeteran💙🫡Dec 7, 2022
@StevenBeschloss I look forward to the indictments!
Show threadOverwhelmedhippieDec 7, 2022
@StevenBeschloss Yesterday, conservative radio propagandist,Tom Sullivan, used his program to push back on the Trump Organization corruption and guilty verdict with, "but everybody does it."
Show threadRustyDec 8, 2022
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That’s the thing - when will they find the courage to admit they were conned? Will they ever find the courage to admit they were wrong?