Donald Trump’s new White House Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, said the Republican Party is “more popular than ever,” just days after voters handed Democrats control of the House and Senate the midterm elections.

Miller said in his speech that it was “the privilege of a lifetime to join President Trump,” before adding: “If it wasn’t for President Trump, the United States of America would not exist right now.”

“This man saved America,” Miller said. “He saved our military from collapse, he saved our economy from destruction, he saved our border from annihilation and he saved our country from threats at home and abroad which would have been the end of the American dream forever.”

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    Every time they say something outrageous, you get a tiny hit of dopamine from the outrage. After a while, you subconsciously crave it. This is why people like gossip magazines and stuff. The more you crave it, the lower the threshold of how believable it has to be for you to accept it. This is how you get sucked into the misinformation machine and this is how maga got conned into it in the first place, fox news did this expertly. This is the main reason you shouldn’t pay attention to the outrageous distractions.

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      It’s not dopamine…

      An amygdala going off feels great, it’s why people like getting scared and being dangerous.

      The more it goes off, the larger it grows, the more it goes off. It is a feedback loop.

      But that’s still not what’s going on here.

      fox news did this expertly.

      I already have a different reply explaining how fox news connects, but again you’re off.