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It was always going to stick.
Conservatives are all about conformity on a base level.
Telling them that they as a group don't conform to society and that they're the outsiders is enough to literally break their brains.
It's why they're always talking about the "silent majority" they legit believe their beliefs are the default.
Literally why they never stop complaining about immigrants. Telling them that even the majority of white people don't conform to their beliefs means they're going to drop everything else to refute it.
Their entire identity is based on conforming to social norms, telling them that even when they conform to their own norms doesn't make them fit in to society as a whole makes them question which side they should be conforming too.
Approach it right, and it ain't hard to make them flip. Happens all the time when rural people go to college, or kids go on social media.
We had a local candidate who wouldn't shut the hell up about being part of a silent majority and then he lost the election in a landslide. Even if there hadn't been two conservatives splitting the vote, it wouldn't have been close, and you could tell it just broke his brain a little bit. He made a statement about how he was so shocked - he really believed there were all these voters out there supporting his bigotry quietly but never making themselves known, and he couldn't fathom that they just didn't exist. Meanwhile, he seemed to think that the huge amount of negative feedback he got from real live human beings couldn't possibly be significant. Unfortunately, that lesson didn't stick and he still shows up to meetings to publicly embarrass himself occasionally.
Yep
The election fraud shit was the natural path forward for them.
Like, the voters may be ignorant. But the people calling the shots at the Federalist society and other places aren't stupid. They know basic psychology and how to manipulate their voters.
It's less threatening to their worldview to believe that the election was stolen than to question whether their core beliefs are wrong. It's literally a Simpson's "Am I out of touch? No, it's the kids that are wrong" moment
Better example is American History X.
That old ass racist was just brainwashing kids and using them as disposible tools.
That's how Republicans (especially trump) treat their voters.
can confirm, happened to me lol (grew up and moved away)