The White Rose Resistance (WRR), where Zacharia sat on the board until February, is best known for its anti-abortion disinformation, harassment campaigns against providers, and for collecting the country’s worst extremists. The group’s national outreach director AJ Hurley, for example, was charged with felony stalking of an abortion provider in San Francisco in 2022. Per his own bio, Hurley is also connected to the woman who was found with multiple fetuses in her home
Tribalism and anti-intellectualism. They care more that their “team” is winning, like some sort of football team.
Every news broadcast is compromised so they’d have to seek out real information themselves, but they “don’t have time” for that or understand information literacy at all and we aren’t allowed to teach it in schools.
My own mom is completely brainwashed. She will trust my opinion on everything except politics. She’s convinced Trump saved everyone from Iran nuking us and we will all die of we dare cut our military at all. She’s okay with early abortion, but thinks Colorado had people aborting full term babies. I send her articles and she refuses to read them because she’s “too tired”. I try to talk to her and she calls everyone I support a communist. She’s the least bad out of the rest of my family, I’m not even on speaking terms with the rest because they just treat it like a football game and just want to “own the libs”.
It’s an identity cult. Her identity is tied to his, that’s why she defends him and is avoidant of reality. It’s really hard to get people out of this state, takes years and professional help, but most of all the person has to admit fault and admit there’s a problem. Anyone even kind of narcissistic will resist this and I’ve seen narcissism is a common thread between many of them.