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A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy

✍ Scribed by Muirhead, Russell;Rosenblum, Nancy L

Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Weight: 136 KB
Edition: Hardcover edition
Category: Fiction
City: United States,United States.
ISBN: 0691204756

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✦ Synopsis

How the New Conspiracists are undermining democracy --and what can be done about it

Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new--conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government with the election of Donald Trump. In A Lot of People Are Saying , Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum show how the new conspiracism differs from classic conspiracy theory, why so few officials speak truth to conspiracy, and what needs to be done to resist it.

Classic conspiracy theory insists that things are not what they seem and gathers evidence--especially facts ominously withheld by official sources--to tease out secret machinations. The new conspiracism is different. There is no demand for evidence, no dots revealed to form a pattern, no close examination of shadowy plotters. Dispensing with the burden of explanation, the new conspiracism...

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