Doubt it. Some talking heads on Fox would simply be instructed to parrot some bullshit about “the protestors started it” and their base would lap it up. These are the same idiots who just take it at face value when El Presidente claims that Portland is “burning to the ground” even though it’s trivially easy for anyone with an internet connection to determine that this is bullshit.
A lie like that would just confirm the beliefs that these bozos already have, the fact that it’s totally divorced from reality notwithstanding. Pure confirmation bias.
Remember that a huge swath of not-coincidentally Republican rednecks wholeheartedly believe that the North fired the first shot of the Civil War even though this is manifestly false.
Doubt it. Some talking heads on Fox would simply be instructed to parrot some bullshit about “the protestors started it” and their base would lap it up. These are the same idiots who just take it at face value when El Presidente claims that Portland is “burning to the ground” even though it’s trivially easy for anyone with an internet connection to determine that this is bullshit.
A lie like that would just confirm the beliefs that these bozos already have, the fact that it’s totally divorced from reality notwithstanding. Pure confirmation bias.
Remember that a huge swath of not-coincidentally Republican rednecks wholeheartedly believe that the North fired the first shot of the Civil War even though this is manifestly false.