It's really obvious if you've learned to think critically. If you haven't, then it's easy to fall for the lies. There is a reason why he's the central public figure of the GOP. The man provably knows how to rile up crowds.

He "talked a good game" if you are a moronic bigot. This guy is still a moronic bigot despite his "revelations".

At least he’s admitting he’s wrong. I’m willing to let him save face a bit even if it’s completely fucking obvious to anyone that paid attention to his first term that he’s completely full of shit.

Depends on how you interpret the word "good". Not in a moral sense obviously, but good as in "effective"? Trump got elected POTUS twice, despite (or because of) being one of the most despicable human beings to ever exist. Not a great orator, and every time I see him speak I want to vomit, but still, objectively I'd have to concede that he did indeed talk a good game.

To assume all these people are stupid is in itself stupid.

People have been gaslight for decades now and most people are not critically online like us so it can be hard to know you’re being lied to.

Edit: Before saying the same thing to me again and again, please read my other replies before coming at me. The replies below show me that you people don’t care about changing minds and just care about being right in a place where most of are left leaning, yet all you do is talk with other left leaning people with no ability to change minds, which I’ve done several times. I would argue I am doing more for the cause than you lot.

He did if you're stupid and bigoted.

Good enough to swindle millions of people.

Well the games these fighters usually play is brute force, suckerpunching and dull stamina. In the rethorical arena that is kind of Donalds game plan.

Though I'm unsure if that was the metaphor Mitchell was crafting here.

It's even worse.

He wasn't fooled. He knew very well what he signed up for. And he was fine with it until things personally affected him. And now he claims he was "fooled".

Nah, he's the same racist, Nazi supporting piece of shit he's been for the past ~10-12 years at least, but now that it's negatively affecting his life, he's trying to leave the sinking ship.

That was the point in the article where I just started laughing. Imagine telling the entire internet you're just gullible as fuck, willing to be swayed by someone's cheap words. Basically an open invite for con artists to flirt with him.

The problem with that is that they all get different news. It's all propaganda. My Trumper buddy thinks that liberals are killing everyone. The difference in media is astounding.

This rhetoric might feel good, but its counterproductive. Someone changing their minds is a good thing. Its also not wrong to say Trump is a propaganda machine.

Everytime I see a post like yours, it reads far more like "look how good a person I am and have been for so long, where's my up votes?".

On the positive side, if he can set the truth then there is hope for others. Not much hope, I give you that, but some.

It's sort of hilarious to me how much shit actually lines up.

That Time magazine cover showed his allegedly shot ear in full detail, looking like a normal uninjured ear. Pretty sure that shit was faked for the bloody photo op

Imagine writing that line lmao

You look around and practically every man has a scar on his head. Scars from childhood, scars from construction work. Basically everyone has some mark. And head wounds bleed a lot, and can look gnarly when healed. Some wise guy knew that and decided to fuck with people anyway.

Nostradamus out here predicting the future by writing about... burning towers, and powerful empires... oh shit it's 9/11!

That's the only path to getting these people turned around. They've, rightly, been called cultists and fascists. Keep telling them they're wrong, they double down. We already saw this the first time around.

I'm very forthcoming when I'm wrong, but I still have an easier time saying I was bamboozled than plain stupid.

How is it wrong to say they were lied to? Trump consistently says if we do awful things, the results won't be awful they will be amazing.any of these republicans have to go against their local community if they disagree as well, there is a lot of resistance. Try to have some empathy here as surely you are ignorant about something sue to circumstance as well, and I'm sure you would want to be treated positively if you were to realize your mistake.

He'll still endorse Trump or his replacement in 2028. Just wait and see.

As far as I understand it, it's not like he regrets his bigotry or anything. He just regrets believing Trump would do anything about it. He's mad that Trump isn't fucking the right people in other words.

I know it's highly subjective, and highly open to interpretation, but I think you'd be surprised at how many 'beast of Revelation' checkboxes Trump fills in. It would be comical if not so real.

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

you know not all people who follow God are like the very.....odd people in the USA. Donald Trump is a very evil man.

He's a meathead strong, alpha man in a position with a lot of public eyes that other meatheads strong, alpha men can look up to for guidance.

Hey, if his admission to being tricked by Trump's lies causes other MAGA folks strong, independent thinkers to have a little introspection and change, I'm all for it.

He doesn't even seem to know about the billions given to Venezuela millionaires

Mayhaps. Who know with the twisted way their minds work. Or more accurately don't work

fox and grifters would never report on it, even if they did they wouldnt frame it in a way that skews thier perceptions.