After Trump sets January 6 rioters free, Fox News changes its tune on pardons for violent offenders

www.mediamatters.org After Trump sets January 6 rioters free, Fox News changes its tune on pardons for violent offenders

President Donald Trump has issued pardons or commuted the sentences of all January 6 offenders, violent and nonviolent, flouting the advice of Fox hosts who previously urged him to grant a narrower pardon. With this day one action, Trump has freed over 1,500 offenders, including “violent offenders w...

During a stretch of Fox programming full of backtracking and excuses for Trump’s pardons, Laura Ingraham hosted two pardoned rioters to rewrite their stories

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Pretty sure Aesop had a story or 10 that illustrated this phenomenon. They solely desire a vague pretense to act under

Conservatism is not a political ideology. It's tribalism. All they can do is perform loyalty to the ingroup. If you prove their reasons wrong, they will pick a different reason. This card-shuffling behavior will occasionally resemble a cogent argument... but they don't mean it. It never predicts their future claims. The only consistent element is the conclusion: outgroup bad, ingroup good.
We keep asking what they really believe. It's a category error. Conservatives do not believe things. Conservatives believe people.