On: The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

[scarab92]

Explain Trump getting re-elected in 2024.

As on-the-nose as the Democrats are, I don't think that would have been possible if the public thought he orchestrated a serious attempt at a coup.

[hackyhacky → scarab92]

The public are misled, thanks to omnipresent right-leaning media and increasingly hard-to-penetrate echo chambers.

In the immediate aftermath of Jan 6, even his fellow republicans called it a coup, until they changed their minds for political expediency.

[bogomog → hackyhacky]

Exactly. And a certain amount of maga are still in favor of a coup, and then a certain amount of blissfully ignorant new voters.