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Trump’s post-truth agenda beaten back as Americans refuse to accept ICE lies (www.theguardian.com)

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Effort to manipulate killing of Alex Pretti collapsed after footage torpedoed ‘domestic terrorist’ claim – could this be a turning point?

Facing a widespread backlash from the public, Democrats and even his own Republican party, Trump was forced into a partial retreat, distancing himself from efforts by aides such as Stephen Miller and Department of Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, to demonise Pretti, and shuffling leadership of immigration operations in Minneapolis.

For once, the president’s reality distortion field – which promised Mexico would pay for his border wall, claimed Covid would disappear “like a miracle”, insisted the 2020 election was stolen, and rewrote the history of the January 6 insurrection – had met its match.

Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post warned: “Mr President, the American people didn’t vote for these scenes, and you can’t continue to order them to not believe their lying eyes.”

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

J6 has been the most successful US political movement in my lifetime

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

J6 was a symptom not a movement. The movement was started around 2014 via social media algorithms pushing people to vote for someone like Trump in the first place, the decades of propaganda from conservative talk radio/talk shows, and Hillary being the liberal bogey woman for 30+ years at that point had made poorer whites feel apathetic to voting democrat ever again because they abandoned the working class in the 90s in response to Reagan’s success in the 80s.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't forget literal decades of propaganda to convince people that immigrants are all dangerous criminals.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

As well as decades of propaganda to convince people that either party existed to help the country rather than themselves. Things have gotten so extreme because both parties have burned through all their more moderate excuses for why they can't make things better so now they've upped the ante and continue with the same song and dance.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well sure, there's wider context behind J6 as a single flash point, but I don't think you should overlook the event itself. It's the most successful single day of protest that I can think of - yeah they got arrested and jailed for a while, but in the end they got literally everything they wanted and were entirely vindicated. The J6ers were transformed into political prisoners and martyrs, becoming a rallying flag for their movement. I think Trump's victory owes a lot to their contribution.