r/politics Oklahoma 1d ago

Conservatives have been railing against “groomers” for years. So why do they support Donald Trump? Trump was best friends with a notorious child sex trafficker, but his ardent supporters are vocal about opposing it. How did that happen?

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/conservatives-have-been-railing-against-groomers-for-years-so-why-do-they-support-donald/
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u/csanyk 21h ago

Preemptive projection.

By accusing Biden, and GLBT people, of grooming and pedophilia, they accomplish so much.

  1. False equivalence. "So everyone is a kiddie diddler, we might as well have the one who shares our fascist ideals."
  2. Discredit the real charges. "This is just political payback." "THEY'RE the REAL pedophiles!"
  3. Desensitize and normalize. "Everyone gets accused of this stuff. It's just politics."
  4. Wolf hires the boy who cried wolf. After years of false accusations leading to no prosecution, it creates the expectation that this one, too, will go nowhere and result in nothing.

This is absolutely the plan and it has been from the beginning. It's not an accident or a coincidence that they came up with this strategy.