1. A significant chunk of partisans always refuse to accept election results (as with Dems in 2004 & 2012 & GOP in 2008 & 2012) but 2020 is different in scale: a majority of GOP elected officials & voters are in complete denial. Obviously Trump is a big factor but not only one
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5. The particular failure in USA has been uncertain economic relief (the UI top up was great but limited, policy tended to favor big business) and mixed messaging (no masks, masks but also, crucially, Trump's incoherence).
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6. This is exactly the point I'm trying to make: Trump's epic failure led GOP partisans (who were unwilling to blame him) to start scapegoating other groups (Soros, BLM). https://twitter.com/cwrightmd/status/1335988536177086464 …
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7. The existing GOP culture prepared partisans to leap conspiracy theories just as it had earlier prepared them to accept Trump: the distrust of experts, the dual scapegoating of elite & minorities, the narrative that white petty bourgeous are true victims.
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8. More thoughts on the social context for the current explosion of conspiracy culture:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/covid-trump-republican-conspiracy/ …
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Come on, you know
@DouthatNYT is never going to admit that bThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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also needs to be pointed out that the american right has been building and maintaining a propaganda network that has become insanely good at socially constructing false realities and propagating them for decades. this is the obvious conclusion to that path.
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