When an issue arises, like oh say, how many people died in Puerto Rico, or Kavanaugh said birth control is abortion, or Google is a brainwashed cultural Marxist cult. As soon as it appears, the counterspin appears.
All that is required is for it to be something one can say that will echo in the chamber of one’s compadres. It doesn’t matter even if it’s wildly untrue to the point of absurdity, it will be believed.
Arguments between the sides are useless, a waste of energy. There is an impenetrable response for every argument.
We can only look on in horror, from our strongholds, at the possibility or the reality, of the other side winning.