How A Pro-Trump Militia Sees The Election

Where's Waldo (Antifa, BLM, evil democrats, the militia, 

the partisan media, etc.)

Part of a broadcast yesterday of an episode of This American Life, Squeaker, was based on a reporter embedded in a heavily armed Virginia militia group. The militia was prepared to fight Antifa and BLM to defend the election. NPR broadcast the program yesterday. The broadcast is here and this ~21 minute segment is called Act 1, Virginia.

Summary: The militia members anticipated election interference and fraud. They wanted to engage to stop interference in the election. They believed that would happen because Trump said so. The group went to various polling places and found no evidence of any interference with voting. There were lots of nice, polite people, but no Antifa, BLM or whatever else there might be trying to disrupt the voting, intimidate voters or commit fraud.

After the election was over, the group still believed that democrats were committing fraud in the ballot counting because Trump said so. No evidence was cited, just allegation of fraud. When asked if Trump conceded and said that Biden won the election, the militia (or at least the member interviewed) said he would absolutely not believe that Trump could lose by any means other than fraud. There is no way those folks could ever believe the 2020 election was free and fair.

That is more evidence of just how powerful Trump's blatant lies are with some people, even when they are faced with contrary evidence they themselves experienced directly. These minds cannot ever accept actual truth for whatever reasons, e.g., tribe loyalty, intense fear and/or hate of democrats, deep distrust in the media and/or democrats, etc.