Kanye is such a bizarrely visible example of lovebombing it's engrossing, like people are baffled as to why he can't hear all the people saying "please stop saying u love Hitler bro" but them saying that is being used by the people he listens to now to tell him only they love him

My serious but not optimistic hope is that people start understanding from an event like this that the entire Conservative project uses cult tactics and begin to get that we need to use the tactics that get people out of cults in order to loosen their grip on their base

It's not about debating, making sound arguments, showing the facts, it's all just social pressure, shame and praise.

Conservatism is not an ideology, its just a shambling beast made of people with a general disregard and fear of others coaching one another on how to smugly overrule the people who they disagree with. Repeating gibberish is the point

They have to have shibboleths and cultural signifiers in order to identify as a cohesive group and, lacking any core philosophy or belief in anything really, saying things that offend progressive sensibilities will do just fine