It must be so disappointing to be MAGA. You're a nasty shit person to everyone, and just when you think you get what you've waited for or start to win, the goal posts move and nothing actually materializes... ever.
Border wall, Epstein files, cheaper prices, making America great... it's all just lies that will never come to pass.
After all these years what do they have to be proud of, other than the "liberal tears" they seem to somehow feed off of... Other Americans in less pain than they are, that's all they are getting, but it seems to be enough.
The laptop was “real” in the sense that it was a real laptop and belonged to him, but it changed hands a bunch of times between Russian assets and parties with clear intent and motives before being “released,” and there’s no way in hell to prove it wasn’t grossly tampered with, so it almost definitely was. It was a manufactured propaganda tool by Russia/Trump at a time when the public was being given 400 pages of damning evidence that Trump’s campaign was collaborating with Russian assets.
This is probably the only thing that will wake the MAGA diehards up. There are a lot of vile people that will vote for anyone who promises to, "own the libs," but the real Trump true believers have built an entire mythology around this Epstien/QAnon/Deep State bullshit. They're not going to accept, "Oh, nm, it was a suicide and there are no tapes or lists, my bad," as an answer. Couple this with the even sharper decline in their standard of living that's coming soon and they might actually turn on him.
Right now, they’re in the cult through tribal mentality and loneliness. Imagine if a moral compass suddenly asked you to boycott “Every website ever made”. Even if that imperative was fact-based, many couldn’t do it.
Not discounting the part where they’re insanely evil, but many are afraid to face reality at this point.
I don't think that it's facts that will wake them up, I think it's that Trump is moving to end the delusion. You can explain how child abduction isn't nearly as prevalent as they think it is, you can debunk their Wayfair child-trafficking conspiracy, you can prove that Comet Ping-Pong doesn't have a basement, and they will ignore those facts. They'll tell you it's deep-state propaganda to stop Trump. But if Trump tells them there's no deep-state and that they've wasted the last decade on a LARP? That's not gonna go over well.
And again, this is for the true-believers; some of them are vile, some of them are misguided, a lot of them are somewhere in between, but in the end, they all believe in the deep-state, human-trafficking, satanic-panic bullshit. There are plenty of Trump supporters who are just cruel little goblins who want Trump to hurt people, and they're not gonna give a shit about this.
MAGA believes so many contrary things at the same time, this will just join the list of them. They will figure out a way to blame the Democrats, I'm sure. Some people will slurp it right up.