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[The Grand Nudger]

Somehow, the concept spread among churches and republican citizens and 200 million of them know it now.

Churches used to compete with each other over who had the better ac, but after trump and especially during covid it was go maga or go home and quite literally.  Plenty of us faith leaders discuss this, alot of them discuss it in unfavorable terms, but even among that subset many were still willing to go along with it as essentially the price of business - whether you (or they) see that as saving souls or fleecing marks.  It's not like the idea of a shadowy cabal driving human society into the dirt is a stretch for people who already believe in a devil doing the same, and they'd been looking for thematically appropriate ways to lose their shit since obama. Bringing us handily to the next tidbit-

I imagine that 1/3 of republican citizens are dumb enough to believe any nonsense and the rest just go along with it.

Republicans respond to political distress by spreading disinformation.  Things that they say they believe are likely false and disseminate anyway. Not even the lunatics are unaware of their string of failed predications and prophecies and claims - hence the need to generate new variations all the time. This would be as true of trumpy cult leaders competing for seats in their dying churches by giving new magic book a maga rewrite as it is for any of the rest of them.

I'll give you the prime example from magas unifying theory as validation. The magats like to contend that there is no such thing as systemic racism. That dei and wokeism and identity politics are a plague. Until you ask them about the plight of The Whites. Then they understand exactly how structural racism works, demand some white dei, and call everyone who mocks them for this racist monsters. They know better, they just don't care.