trust. Every presidential statement,
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
What was Trump? A fascist? A white nationalist? A malignant narcissist? A conservative with very bad manners? Once he became president, his only legislative achievement—a huge tax cut that heavily favored the rich and corporations—fit right in with Republican orthodoxy. His court appointments were friendly to business interests and also to religiou
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
According to the World Values Survey, in the early eighties, 44 percent of Americans thought their fellow citizens could be trusted most of the time, but that percentage fell to the mid-thirties by 2014. This lack of trust is particularly pronounced among partisans: according to Pew, in 1994, 21 percent of Republicans and 17 percent of Democrats ha... See more
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Despite its origin among Clinton-supporting Democrats, the birther conspiracy theory hopped party lines in the general election. The Fox News host Sean Hannity picked up the issue, as did the CNN host Lou Dobbs. Seventeen Republicans in Congress either suggested that Obama wasn’t born in the United States or voiced a strategic uncertainty.
Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
There is vote suppression, distortions of campaign finance, a largely uninformed public, vast sums of money spent to mislead and manipulate public opinion, efforts to spread fake news on social media, and a public that is increasingly likely to talk mostly to the like-minded, and consult mostly news sources it agrees with.