That’s not cognitive dissonance, that’s doublethink. Cognitive dissonance means they experience poison from holding two competing thoughts at the same time, double think is the ability to hold two competing thoughts at the same things and know both of them to be true.
I suppose. I don’t think he was vocal enough. He needed to take it to the court of public opinion more. Granted that was before the heyday of shitposting A win. I was very disappointed with what happened. It was one of my real eye opening moments to the truth of the left.