MAGA cult members in the personality cult of Donald Trump do not take the coronavirus pandemic seriously, putting everyone else they come into contact with at risk. A new Pew Research Center poll has found a stark partisan difference in views on the importance of the coronavirus pandemic in the days before the presidential election. … Read more
Before Chief Justice John Roberts’ Decades-Long Crusade Against the Voting Rights Act, there was Chief Justice William Rehnquist, a prominent figure during the years of the Republican Party’s Operation Eagle Eye to suppress minority voting. Rehnnquist was a poll watcher with direct involvement in challenging voters as the head of a group of lawyers who challenged … Read more
The Washington Examiner, Breitbart News, The Gateway Pundit and The Washington Times (i.e., The Moonie Times) and other conservative media (ahem, Fox News) amplify false claims of rampant voter fraud in what a new Harvard study calls a “propaganda feedback loop.” I have been warning you about Epistemic closure and the ‘conservative misinformation feedback loop’ media bubble … Read more
The Lincoln Project has released a new ad called “Biden’s Moment.” The ad chronicles Joe Biden’s life and explains how he is the man to lead the United States at this moment in history. The narrator starts the roughly minute and a half spot with: “America is hurting. There’s a sickness in the land, more … Read more
During the final presidential debate last week, Donald Trump in one of his rants introduced a conspiracy theory: But now, with what came out today, it’s even worse. All of the emails, the emails, the horrible emails of the kind of money that you were raking in, you and your family. And Joe, you were … Read more