Donald Trump doesn't understand how the internet works. According to Trump, the internet doesn't collect and save data. To Trump, the internet doesn't have a history.
I say this, because when Trump tweets this:
The internet has on it, video evidence of Trump saying that he would shutdown the government, and none other than the Speaker of the House pointed this out to Trump:
Unfortunately, Donald Trump and his acolytes don't care about the truth. You could show a Trump supporter this video clip, and they would just play Jedi-mind tricks to convince them self that reality is not true.
"Before they seize power and establish a world according to their doctrines," wrote Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism, "totalitarian moments conjure up a lying world of consistency which is more adequate to the needs of the human mind than reality itself; in which, through sheer imagination, uprooted masses can feel at home and are spared the never-ending shocks which real life and experiences deal to human beings and their expectations. The force possessed by totalitarian propaganda - before the movements have the power to drop iron curtains to prevent anyone's disturbing, by the slightest reality, the gruesome quiet of an entirely imaginary world - lies in its ability to shut the masses off from the real world."
It's why you'll see Trump supporters say that he is "fearless":
Trump's base is either cynical, opportunists, or delusional. This woman who called into Rush Limbaugh's show doesn't care that Trump was a draft dodger, for she isn't even living in reality anymore.
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