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Trump at rally bragging about the size of the J6 crowd.
One weird effect of Watergate and the secret tapes is that we seem to know how to handle politicians saying horrible stuff in secret and it coming out.
But we still don't have a handle on how to react properly to politicians saying the exact same stuff out loud. We still have a sense of "if he's not hiding it, it can't be all that bad."
If a secret recording of Trump bragging to Josh Hawley about J6 came out, we'd be horrified (or at least pretend to be). But when he just says it in front of a microphone at a rally? It's just reported and ignored.
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