I still think, in evaluating conspiracy theories, we really underestimate how the pandemic erased people's baseline of normality, and lockdown trapped them inside with social media.
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It did amplify paranoia
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It completely eroded most of the country's faith in elected officials, educators and scientific experts.
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I don't think you can really separate how much was the pandemic and how much was it being an election year, but I generally think people in media OVERestimate how much was the pandemic
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COVID is an easy scapegoat but if you'd been obsessively following for years, the inflection points of it's growth were pretty consistently centered around Trump's actions in raising its profile
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I'd love to see some hard evidence.
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