My favorite thing in the age of Trump is the inversion of opinion he creates in the minds of his opposition.
This has been true for a while, at least during my lifetime since Bill Clinton. I'd say what makes Trump more noteworthy here is over it being a multi-faceted complaint, a Hydra-issue, as opposed to focusing it all on one or two things solely.
It's essentially so spread thin that it goes nowhere and is easy to counter with assuming they're "reaching".
For months liberals have been harping against conservatives calling them conspiracy theorists when it comes to covid. Suddenly Trump gets Covid-19 and hashtags related to trump faking his diagnosis etc trends and you see tweet after tweet and reddit post after reddit post.
While I do think he got the disease and is otherwise just trying to diminish it's perceptions, I can see where the "faking it" idea is coming from: If he fakes the disease and pulls through it with confidence, he could feasibly lower the amount of Covid Panic and further push towards his pious worship of The Economy.
Considering that his leadership style's consistently aimed to have his people feel unafraid by hiding "the dangers" from them, this fits the bill.
The same sort of inversion occurred with vaccines, Trump has been pushing this vaccine constantly (lol really every time the market gets shaky) and liberals, whom attacked crazy right winged people, start speaking about the ineffectiveness and dangers of vaccines.
Context has a lot to do with how people's arguments are flipping, but I do agree that how many degrees of separation from being the one who actually did the research can have a way of streamlining spin towards the everyman.
The government is responding to the people (even training them on the event that ANTIFA attacks the white house more directly), so the people adapting towards their adapting makes sense doesn't it? This is the information age, and what we're seeing is information guerrilla warfare.
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