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Whether the Kremlin is paying Gabbard is beside the point
The problem is she genuinely loves conspiracy theories.
Lindsay Beyerstein
Lindsay Beyerstein is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, investigative journalist and judge for the Sidney Hillman Foundation. Her forthcoming book is tentatively titled Against the Light: The Deep State Myth from the Illuminati to QAnon.
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Trump campaigned against reality and won
Lindsay Beyerstein on disinformation, conspiracism and totalitarianism.
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Conservatism is dead, conspiracism is all
The Deep State, the Big Lie, and the Great Replacement, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
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Trump tariffs would be world’s biggest protection racket
He politicized tariff waivers in his first term, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
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Vance is Trump's ambassador of paranoia
Conspiracism is the overarching ideology of the maga movement.
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The GOP response to Trump’s conviction is incoherent until you remember the conspiracy theories that animate it
It’s time to state the obvious, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
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Extreme apocalyptic rhetoric is everywhere and it's dangerous
It's so normalized it’s hard to draw causal connections between rhetoric and violence, writes Lindsay Beyerstein. That’s the point.
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More Republicans are literally demonizing opponents
We laugh about the Satanic Panic, but we're living through something much worse, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
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IVF makes a mockery of anti-choice extremists
Warehouses of frozen embryos put a lie to their central dogma that a fertilized egg is a person, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
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A convention fight is a pure pundit’s fantasy
It’s time to shelve the childish fantasies and focus on the task at hand, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
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Special counsel finds a way to turn Biden’s willingness to cooperate into a smear
The DC press corps is taking the emotionally charged impressions of a two-time Trump appointee at face value, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
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Trump attorney, now cooperating with prosecutors, wrote detailed instructions on how to steal the election in Nevada and Arizona
At times, Ken Chesebr was astonishingly candid about how outrageous his plan was, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.