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Monday, April 15, 2019

Conspiracy Theories and the Mueller Report

I'm reading a book  called Conspiracy Theories , by the American legal scholar Cass Sunstein.  In it, Sunstein tries to explain why folks gravitate toward such ideas.  Among his categories of reasons:
  • informational (AKA it sounds sensible)
  • reputation-driven (AKA someone hears the theory from someone in whom they believe)
  • political (AKA someone in the public eye exploits an unanticipated event)
  • emotional (AKA an unanticipated event touches soon-to-be-adherents deeply)
Sunstein's categories lead me to wonder which the Trumpies will use on Thursday, to counteract the much-redacted-but-possibly-still-revealing Mueller Report.

My guess?  They'll  use them all.  Over and over.

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