For a serious answer WRT the people who genuinely didn’t think this administration would act the way it is - in his first term, he was mostly surrounded by people who were competent and who respected the law & checks & balances. When they got told “kidnap people off the streets” they said “I can’t do that, that would be illegal”.
So the fact that these things weren’t done in the first term made people think they wouldn’t be done in the second term.
Couple that with the fact that the vast majority of people are incredibly uninformed about politics.
How did so many people get fooled by him when he’d already been president and was just like this for four years‽
For a serious answer WRT the people who genuinely didn’t think this administration would act the way it is - in his first term, he was mostly surrounded by people who were competent and who respected the law & checks & balances. When they got told “kidnap people off the streets” they said “I can’t do that, that would be illegal”.
So the fact that these things weren’t done in the first term made people think they wouldn’t be done in the second term.
Couple that with the fact that the vast majority of people are incredibly uninformed about politics.
hes playing his fans, he knows he fucked up but is trying to save face by virtue signalling or bandwangoning.
5th gen warfare