Trump Turned the Game on Its Head

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When tromp got the race in 20 15, he didn't have a ready made coalition. Trump had to dance with the people who brought him to the prom so he continued to do that during his presidency. And and the insurrection is the end result. I mean, you should expect about forty % of the party after the election to think that it was regged. That's normal. Both parties do after every presidential election, they were cheated. Here it was a lot more republicans. This is conspiracy theory politics.

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.