While I enjoyed the citation to ILLove, today I read a piece by Matt Yglesias (sp- Google it yourself Big10Man), about the blowback he got for going onto Joe Rogan's podcast. His point was that "shunning" or cancel culture, whatever you want to call it, does not help convince people their attitudes, etc. are wrong and, in essence, staying in your cocoon is not a good way to win elections.
My theory is that it just doesn't matter, frankly. Steve Schmidt had a good piece on Amanpour the other day, where he basically said their goal at the Lincoln project was to use their methods, which were pretty damn harsh, to peel off the four percent of Trump supporting Republicans that they needed to win the election. He wasn't trying to convince anyone else in the other 96% of the Republican Party because it's just not possible.
There are still deep double digits of Trump voters who "still think he can pull this off!" If they haven't been able to put two and two together to understand that the Presidential election is *over* - they aren't going to understand nuances of policy no matter how nicely you frame it.
And despite Schmidt's efforts, even if he peeled off 4% of Republican voters, that didn't matter. Biden won because Democratic turnout was more massive than the massive Trump turnout. He constantly references Georgia and there's a pretty good argument to be made that if you took the Republicans who voted for Biden out of the equation, Trump wins. But Biden still wins without that.
Trump, FOX, Newsmax, and OAN have permanently scrambled too many brains. They just need to be outnumbered as best they can be, now, and really work on the youth to not fall into the trap while awaiting the passing of the scrambled.
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