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I don't think so. I used to, but my thinking on stuff like this has changed since I dove deep into the Nathan Phillips fiasco last year.
Blatant dishonesty surely accounts for some of the response, but when it reaches the fever pitch in the masses, it becomes a constructed reality, impervious to facts or explanations. I was astounded to run across people on FB a couple of months ago who still believe the false narrative of "The Boy Who Smirked" and were able, at the snap of a finger, to summon up the same sort of visceral outrage as we saw in January 2019. I think we're seeing the same thing here with eider, jgarden, artie, rusha, etc - they have an emotional investment in a lie that they are unwillingly to see refuted.
You need look no further than eider and his use of "political tribalism" as an arrow to fling against what he perceives to be "Trump supporters" and his total inability to recognize it in himself.