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561: How the Evangelical Movement Failed a Generation with Jon Ward

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The Cognitive Dissonance of Donald Trump

Leon Festinger is the sociologist who came up with the term cognitive dissonance. He was studying this apocalyptic cult who thought that the world was going to end in a cataclysmic flood, but that they were going to be rescued by a bunch of aliens. And very, very few of them ever admitted that they were wrong or that they had been duped by their cult leader. So when someone believes something so firmly, they can't entertain the possibility that they're wrong. They will come up with some kind of logical contortions to continue to persist in their wrong belief.

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