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You can't expect a war criminal to hold war criminals accountable. What's happening with the Venezuelan boats is criminal. He obviously doesn't care about criminality. I think the issue is that most people that actually cared about criminality were against him in the first place. He has been on record many times about how little he cares for the rule of law, so that dissuaded most people who earnestly cared about the law from supporting him to begin with.
I'm not saying people like you don't exist at all, but most people that cared about accountability were against him, and the ones that for some reason still supported him are likely now too deep in the Trump mindset to speak against him, or have been convinced that anything said against him is a lie. It has to be said that a lot of people you potentially perceived as "like you" were also grifters, bots/foreign agents, or just trolls, and many of all of those groups have pushed even further right. If you were on Reddit, feel free to go back and see which accounts you saw posting or you were chatting with. See what they're up to now, if anything. It's possible I'm wrong and the community you're referring to is still over there and still feels the same way you do. Otherwise, there are only so many explanations as to what could have happened, and I'm open to hearing other theories.
I wonder if a bigger part of it than we've realized is them being brainwashed to start believing everything said against him is a lie, one of the things you mentioned
I assume many of the people from that subreddit back then are no longer on reddit, but surely they can't all have moved to somewhere dumb like truth social either, so I also wonder if there's a particular place I'm not realizing a lot of them went
Yea, as someone with family and acquaintances that are into Trump, I have generally only seen them become more fanatical.
If you end up finding it, I would be interested to know where. If you remember to, please feel free to come back and let me know.
Thanks for the discussion. I hope you can find something useful in it for future discussions with those who still blindly support Trump 🙏