4 Apr 2022 8:58 am
Another author, naively surprised by the CULT OF THE MAGA RIGHT:
Propaganda and the Age of Unreason (How the Republican Base Was Led into Darkness)
EXCERPT:
"Our founders – in the Age of Reason – might have assumed (or was it only hoped?) that the citizens of their democracy would readily understand that Trump’s claim of a Stolen Election was false, since every bit of the mountainous evidence showed that to be a Big Lie.
And reasoning citizens would have concluded further that therefore it was Donald Trump who was trying to steal the election, that his “Stop the Steal” was as much the opposite of the truth as Putin’s “liberating” Ukraine from a fascist regime.
But tens of millions of Americans – disabled from the reasoning powers our founders had hoped the citizenry would employ – believe that Big Lie and lend their support to the overthrow of the constitutional order our founders gave us.
I don’t know if our founders envisioned such a possibility, but I confess that I did not."
He must not have been keeping up with current events. Here's a more realistic VIEW:
"The View" rejects co-host's call for bipartisanship: "Can't build consensus with insurrectionists" | Salon.com
AND FROM THE DEPT. OF DEAF EARS:
Conservative Columnist Warns GOP Of 'Demented Fringe' Pushing Trump 2024 | HuffPost Latest News
Propaganda and the Age of Unreason (How the Republican Base Was Led into Darkness)
EXCERPT:
"Our founders – in the Age of Reason – might have assumed (or was it only hoped?) that the citizens of their democracy would readily understand that Trump’s claim of a Stolen Election was false, since every bit of the mountainous evidence showed that to be a Big Lie.
And reasoning citizens would have concluded further that therefore it was Donald Trump who was trying to steal the election, that his “Stop the Steal” was as much the opposite of the truth as Putin’s “liberating” Ukraine from a fascist regime.
But tens of millions of Americans – disabled from the reasoning powers our founders had hoped the citizenry would employ – believe that Big Lie and lend their support to the overthrow of the constitutional order our founders gave us.
I don’t know if our founders envisioned such a possibility, but I confess that I did not."
He must not have been keeping up with current events. Here's a more realistic VIEW:
"The View" rejects co-host's call for bipartisanship: "Can't build consensus with insurrectionists" | Salon.com
AND FROM THE DEPT. OF DEAF EARS:
Conservative Columnist Warns GOP Of 'Demented Fringe' Pushing Trump 2024 | HuffPost Latest News