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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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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So much of the Republican strategy since at least Reagan has been to use catastrophic mismanagement to convince the populace of the failure of public goods generally, and position themselves as the anti-public-good voice. Covid plays beautifully into that.
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