“Donald Trump may be crazy, but he’s not stupid. When he claims that ‘nobody’ showed up at a 10,000 person Harris-Walz rally in Michigan that was live-streamed and widely covered by the media, that it was all AI, and that Democrats cheat all of the time, there is a method to his madness,” Sanders said in a statement.

“Clearly, and dangerously, what Trump is doing is laying the groundwork for rejecting the election results if he loses,” he added. “If you can convince your supporters that thousands of people who attended a televised rally do not exist, it will not be hard to convince them that the election returns in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and elsewhere are ‘fake’ and ‘fraudulent.’”

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“This is what destroying faith in institutions is about. This is what undermining democracy is about. This is what fascism is about,” he said of Trump’s campaign falsehoods. “This is why we must do everything we can to see that Trump is defeated.”

  • @ChocoboRocket
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    154 months ago

    “The only shared reality that society is allowed to have is Trump’s subjective interpretation of reality.”

    The crazy part is, that MAGAts want Trump to be the sole source of truth probably more than even Trump does.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      54 months ago

      One fair thing to do would be to let them to live with each other and eat each others’ faces until they want to come back to a “realer” world.