trump has been a master at leading these people further and further into this kind of disinformation tunnel and playing them up to january 6th. you know what is interesting, january 6th they showed a propaganda film at the rally. we haven t paid enough attention to that because it was a qanon film. there is a huge amount of overlap between all the qanon and gop and mike flynn. they had hollywood and globalists but the film ended with this terrifying sight if you re not in the cult, trump s giant face. it covered the whole screen. that face stayed on the screen as the people went off to assault the capitol all riled up by trump, saving him. we really have to understand these dynamics of authoritarian cults and disinformation if we are going to understand january 6th and what it has wrought and what our reality will be in the
truth? it is really difficult because once they re fully immersed in these cult dynamics and very invested like speaking to the press or going to rallies and their identity becomes anchored to these myths they believe are kind of dogma, they are very reluctant even if they have an inkling something might not be right they are very reluctant to distance themselves. it s like they don t want to lose face or be ashamed. and so they can actually dig in further. but a lot of the studies show that it is very easy to want to cast these people off. so many of us have friends and family we can t talk to anymore. that is not a good thing to do because then they go further into their burrows of disinformation. it is a very difficult problem. trump has been a master at leading these people further and further into this kind of disinformation tunnel and playing them up to january 6th.