This is combined with the half-truths most Dem media provider, true facts that support Dems, true facts that hurt Reps, and often ignoring any facts that hurt Dems, like the Jones’ fantasy of murder. Also ignoring or downplaying any facts that help Reps, like Trump’s brokering a Gaza peace plan, though I won’t trust it until the hostages are released.

The biggest problem with belief is confirmation bias, and all smart folk are smart enough to lie to themselves, and believe their own lies.

https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/10/virginia-gubernatorial-debate-winsome.html

https://notthebee.com/article/report-all-major-media-corporations-covered-virginias-jay-jones-story-for-a-total-of-63-seconds-since-it-broke

You’re missing 3 things. The first is that most of them will never hear such a story; their news sources are unlikely to cover it. The second is that if they happen across it, they’ll assume it’s a lie. One or the other of those things usually takes care of it. But if they somehow hear of it and accept that he said it or wrote it, they say one of two things (or both): he was drunk or otherwise under the influence, and/or the right is much much much worse – literally Nazis.

I would ask what kept his thumb from checking different sources BEFORE he got converted.
Just at random, trying to keep up with the latest apps for finding something on your big screen, you’ll encounter lots of different stuff. But he eschewed all except the ones to which he’s glued permanently.
That’s the process which seems like something more than random.

Like I said, he changed after retirement and doing really nothing but sitting on the couch all day and absorbing MSNBC, CNN, and staying up late to watch Kimmel. A true product of propo brainwashing.