What Do You Think When You Saw the Insurrection?

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The reason why they were supporting trump wasn't because he was a raggin republican. It wasn't because they read national review last week. They like trump cause he was an outsider, and he had an outsider ideology in which he essentially trashed the political establishment. So once you on cuanon correctly, not many people buy into it. But because of that, you don't find big differences between right and left buying in.

When we talk about conspiracy theories we tend to focus on what people believe instead of why, and, more importantly, why they believe those things and not other things. In this episode, we sit down with two psychologists working to change that, and in addition, change the term itself from conspiracy theory to conspiracy narrative, which more accurately describes what makes any one conspiracy appealing enough to form a community around it and in rare cases result in collective action.