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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Dec 2020

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Dec 2020

      2. This @DouthatNYT column is a very thoughtful attempt to do an ethnography of new conspiracy theorists, dividing them into normies following elite partisan signalling, reflexive contrarians & the newly radicalized by Covid:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/opinion/sunday/trump-election-fraud.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage …

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Dec 2020

      3. It's the newly radicalized that is most interesting. Douthat is right to note that Covid has been hugely disruptive & has opened people up to extremist politics. You see that also with QAnon surge.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Dec 2020

      4. Where @douthat's analysis could be pushed further is noting that it's not just Covid radicalizing people but the particular political failure of USA Covid response which radicalized normie conservatives & opened them to far-right theories.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Dec 2020

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Dec 2020

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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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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Dec 2020

          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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Dec 2020

          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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        1. William Butler Yeast  🇺🇦‏ @SilkScreenFiend 7 Dec 2020
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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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