Of all the ways for a tweet to go viral, having one picked up by hardcore Donald Trump supporters is one of the less pleasant. But that was me over the weekend, when a five tweet thread I fired off late on Thursday night expressing my frustration at the Senate voting to avoid calling witnesses in the president’s impeachment trial.

Mostly, I wanted to let the gloating MAGA trolls making Twitter miserable know that at some point, the con that they’ve been drawn in by will unravel, and nobody will come to their rescue when it does. Basically, I called Trump voters an aspirational cult devoted to a con man who promised them riches and comfort, and is delivering nothing.

Here’s the first tweet in the thread. It’s pretty insulting, I must say:

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