in this binge/purge attention economy where people have to be reminded of shit that happened just last week...you have a small window of time to seed the narrative and tell people what to think while they still care. then every following development/spin reinforces the narrative through confirmation bias.

this is something repubs/fox news/conservative media have been intimately aware of for decades. theyve perfected it while democrats sit back and wait for all of the facts to come out 2 years later lol.

repubs concocted an entire deep state subplot from 2 text messages between lovers that discredited the whole mueller report. dems couldnt even get mileage out of the fact trumps campaign manager was giving private polling data to russian intelligence to help them target their disinformation campaign in the rust belt states that flipped red. literal collusion.

once again...'just do what republicans do'.

dems are forever 'keeping their powder dry' and 'not overplaying their hand'...and thats a big reason why we are where we are.