Source: The Bulwark
by Bill Lueders
“Take the smallest thing, blow it way out of proportion, and while people respond to the manufactured scandal, find the next thing to blow up. It works well for Trump’s fan base, which is used to being asked to believe crazy things. (It’s quite similar to what Trump and supporters hope to do in the aftermath of an election he loses — find lots of little election-related hiccups and concocted complaints that can serve as a pretext to declare the election illegitimate.) That said, not every slander conjured up in the fevered brains of Trump and his supporters fits this tiny-particular-to-full-blown-scandal model. Some lies seem to have been conjured up completely out of whole cloth.” (09/04/24)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-right-wingers-manufacture-scandal