Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie was booed while walking on stage at the Florida Republican Party’s Freedom Summit event on Saturday. “Now look, every one of those boos, everyone on…

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie was booed while walking on stage at the Florida Republican Party’s Freedom Summit event on Saturday.

“Now look, every one of those boos, everyone one of those cat calls, everyone one of those yells will not … solve one problem we face in this country,” Christie said. “Your anger against the truth is reprehensible.”

Between jeers, the former New Jersey governor tried to tell the crowd of Trump supporters that their energy is better spent elsewhere.

  • TechyDad@lemmy.world
    171·
    1 year ago

    Anger about the truth can be fine. For example, Trump won in 2016. I’m still angry about that.

    The difference between me and the MAGA folks (well, in this area at least since I don’t want to list ALL the differences) is that I accept the truth and move on. I didn’t start a group that claimed that Hillary really won and that some shadowy cabal cheated her out of it. (And before anyone says “Russia,” they interfered by way of social media posts and the like, but I don’t think they hacked into voting machines and changed votes.)

    I accepted that Trump won, as tough as that was, and set out trying to figure out what could be done to salvage the future. And we did that in 2020 when Biden was elected.

    (Full Disclosure: Hillary and Biden weren’t my first choices and I disagree with them on plenty of topics, but they are worlds better than Trump.)

    Basically, it’s okay to be angry at the truth, but it’s not okay to deny that the truth is the truth. That last part is that key that the MAGA folks aren’t grasping.