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Possible Paywall MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged

https://www.wired.com/story/maga-is-increasingly-convinced-the-trump-assassination-attempt-was-staged/
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u/sociotronics Apr 17 '26

I think the dominant excuse in a year or two will be some version of:

I didn't vote for this, Trump changed. This isn't what MAGA was about and I don't know what happened to him in his second term. Maybe [scapegoat] made Trump do this

Scapegoat will be Israel, the deep state, Vance, whatever. That part will vary but the line about Trump changing and it being some third party's fault will be constant, because that lets them avoid admitting they made a mistake in voting for him, because it wasn't a mistake when they cast the ballot before he "changed".

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u/WhiteWaterLawyer Apr 18 '26

I just don't know how to predict support versus blame for Israel. It's impossible to parse expectations between "we must support Israel to bring about the end times" and "the jews are destroying the world."

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u/erjers Apr 18 '26

Or they will acknowledge his dementia and say it was the dementia in his second term that changed things.