There will always be some percentage that is “gone forever.”

I’ve heard it quoted at as high as 20%. Though I hope that, like you say, it’s half that number.

I don’t think this particular camp is discussed much, but I believe there is a substantial faction who knows he was framed but literally doesn’t care. In their minds, wrong is only “wrong” if it’s not their side doing it.

I’ve literally heard these people say as much. They dislike the man so much that, for whatever reason, they’re fine with whatever it takes to get rid of him..be it unethical, illegal, or both. They seem to have a “Batman hero complex” where they believe that the ends justify the means, and that the actual law is to be treated as a mere suggestion and only if it’s convenient to them at the time.

Because they are so convinced that they’re “right”, they actually think that they’re doing us all a favor, actually.

They literally see themselves like Batman, when in reality they’re much closer to batshit (insane).

Little do they understand, however, that their fickle relationship with the rule of law will eventually endanger them. And that’s because at some point the opposing side will realize that there is no recourse using the law. That the only ones playing by the rules are them, and that it’s impossible to win by the rules when you’re the only one playing by the rules. That is the point at which “the men who just wanted to be left alone” get active. And when that happens, there is no restriction in their actions and the aforementioned “self-proclaimed Batmans” are subject to a brutal, scorched-earth campaign that they brought upon themselves. But by the time they realize it, it’s far too late.

I honestly don’t know where we are on the timeline that leads there, but we’re definitely closer every day.

That +/- 25% are most likely niggers and illegals

I have thought about this issue a wee bit today. I do think that there are a lot- and I do mean a lot- of people that have gone too far to be able to turn back now. I think I was internally addressing the Russiagate farce with the simplified view of "is it true or is it false", but I was ignoring how it is also an issue central to a leftists' political identity and reasoning, which is are extremely fragile things. After covid, having your kids mutilated , having to maybe face that you have killed yourself by getting jabbed, needing to justify that you allowing your child to be sexually perverted by others... all while you stood back like a coward or because you wanted to be part of the "cool kids' table". I doubt that they will be able to face the realization that there was a moment in time that if they had just acted like sane adults, instead of acting like a bunch of high school mean girls by ganging up on somebody because it was the "cool thing to do", then maybe shit wouldn't be so bad; that perhaps if, instead of allowing themselves to be swept up and carried out to sea upon a tide of obvious bullshit, they had chosen to stand the gap for reasons of personal integrity or truth- maybe things could be different; or, that the entire time they thought they were rebelling they were actually being herded like sheep. These people allowed themselves to be lied to, time-and-time again. These people need, in their heads, Trump to be a Russian agent to exonerate themselves and shield them from the reality they don't want to see. They kind of remind me of the joke that ends with the bear telling the hunter "I'm starting to think that you don't come 'round here for the hunting".