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It's not play acting. Many people really do believe Trump will try to deport his political enemies, to include US citizens and legal residents.
I am not sure whether this will happen; I do believe Trump would like to do that and would try if he thought he could get away with it. People like you who cheer for Trump "circumventing procedural nonsense" (i.e., ignoring laws and court rulings he doesn't like) show how it could happen. I think Scott's article "You Are Still Crying Wolf" was accurate for its time, but people are not crying wolf today.
It's play acting. The same people with the crocodile tears over this were laughing when people were getting locked up for protesting not being able to see their dying loved ones during covid and had no problem with the complete suspension of rights when it was their team in power or jan 6 protestors getting solitary for loitering. They regularly vote unanimously to extend the patriot act overreach, etc, etc, etc.
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It's still acting; it's just Method acting. That is, they are living the role of someone who believes Trump will deport US citizens for being political enemies.
No, you and @remzem are both wrong. I know these people; they are not play acting. They may be wrong or foolish (though daily Trump makes me less certain of this), but they believe what they say.
I also don't know anyone who was laughing at people being locked up over Covid, but I observe people on this forum who'd cheer if Trump actually does all the worst things they claim he hasn't and won't do don't be silly.
Perhaps the people you know are entirely sincere! Does that mean everyone is? On the other hand, "most people are ideologically-possessed hypocrites" isn't a particularly novel, charitable, or enlightening take.
HermanCainAward has almost 500K subscribers. You might not know people that laughed over that kind of thing, but it wasn't some vanishingly rare attitude, and that's a particularly ghoulish example. Surely less disgusting examples would have proportionally more adherents.
I'm certainly not claiming everyone is sincere, but I wouldn't judge sincerity based on performative outrage on social media. For any ridiculous and hysterical or ghoulish and terrible take , there will be some people who genuinely believe it and some who are just trolling.
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Again to date Trump hasn’t ignored court rulings (though he is getting close). Yes there is the plane case but the Trump admin complied with a literal reading of the written order.
This one is interesting but as I pointed out the district judge seems to ignore the breadth of what SCOTUS said so again the Trump admin is arguably acting technically legal.
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