'David Brooks of The New York Times explains that these poor saps, most of whom, he says, are uneducated, uncredentialed people who don’t live in prosperous cities, have retreated to conspiracy theories to explain their misfortune and unhappiness. “People in this precarious state are going to demand stories that will both explain their distrust back to them and also enclose them within a safe community of believers,” he writes. Trump, QAnon, and Alex Jones “rose up to give them those stories and provide that community.” '
Nevertheless, they are still nearly half of the American electorate. Pretending they don't exist, as the left is wont to do, will come back to bite someone on the behind in the future as it obviously has in the past.
Unless the plan is to just swamp their numbers with an unending stream of illegal third world immigrants.
'David Brooks of The New York Times explains that these poor saps, most of whom, he says, are uneducated, uncredentialed people who don’t live in prosperous cities, have retreated to conspiracy theories to explain their misfortune and unhappiness. “People in this precarious state are going to demand stories that will both explain their distrust back to them and also enclose them within a safe community of believers,” he writes. Trump, QAnon, and Alex Jones “rose up to give them those stories and provide that community.” '
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, they are still nearly half of the American electorate. Pretending they don't exist, as the left is wont to do, will come back to bite someone on the behind in the future as it obviously has in the past.
Unless the plan is to just swamp their numbers with an unending stream of illegal third world immigrants.
Oh, wait!