Opinion | The Great American Crackup is underway - The Washington Post - 0 views
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The difference, Uscinski says, is “we have a president who has built a coalition by reaching out to conspiracy-minded people.”
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Joseph Uscinski, a University of Miami political scientist who studies conspiracy theories, notes that psychological measures of paranoia have been “entirely stable.” Conservatives are inherently no more conspiratorial than liberals; only low education (and, relatedly, income) predict such tendencies
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The bad news: For the first time in our history, a president and a major political party have weaponized paranoia, to destabilizing effect.
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