28 December 2023
Hoodwinkers Don’t Need Evidence
Just like Giuliani’s accusations against Georgia election workers, Trump’s defense attorneys in the federal election interference case believe they can convince the trial judge that their client’s claim that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” solely on the basis that Trump’s supporters also believe it.
In a popular democracy, when those supporters are in the majority what they believe is, by definition, the truth. In other words, facts (representations of reality) are proven by convincing people to accept them as reality. Rules of evidence are only the creation of a privileged minority group of people that allows them to impose their rule over solipsistic people like Trump and disaffected people like his supporters,
Trump’s acolytes have bought into this imaginary pathway to immortality. That’s a big risk for them because their alternative place in history could be as criminal hoodwinkers.
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