They don’t misunderstand. They refuse to understand.
Because understanding would demand reckoning—with history, with harm, with the ease of being lied to when the lie flatters.
Willful ignorance isn’t blindness. It’s a choice to look away, over and over, until looking becomes a habit and truth feels like an attack.
This isn’t about facts. It’s about comfort.
And comfort, in the MAGA world, is always built on someone else’s erasure.
