Child Groomer, Sexual Predator
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2,000 Mules, One ***
Ever since the āStop the Stealā campaign in the aftermath of the 2020 election, the relentless barrage of election lies from Donald Trump and his allies have been like a river carving a gorge out of a mountain, dramatically reshaping the land long after the water itself has passed. Conspiracy after conspiracy appears, roars across social media at top speed, then is exposed and falls apart. But the dissipation of the individual conspiraciesāthe foundering of the court cases, the recantations from media companies that spread them, the eye-popping defamation settlementsādo nothing to rebuild the trust already eroded as they flowed by. Among Republicans, belief that the 2020 election was stolen is more fundamental than everācarved into the bedrock.
When Dinesh DāSouzaās movie 2,000 Mules arrived on the scene in 2022, it was an immediate MAGA smashāa āmasterpiece of meeting market demand,ā as WaPoās Philip Bump put it earlier this year. It purported to prove 2020 absentee ballot fraud on a massive scale. Its ridiculous claims were debunked almost immediately, but that didnāt matterāit became a tentpole of the 2020 MAGA mythology at once. Trump described it as āthe greatest and most impactful documentary of our time.ā