The CCDH and the Tuskegee Study

"It's like a snowball rolling down a hill very fast. His growing popularity and the laundering of his record in the churn of naive adulation marks a sea change in the history of conspiruality as we understand it," she said. "He casts a charismatic spell that echoes, but also exacerbates and amplifies some of the deepest conflicts in the American psyche between tradition and rebellion, nostalgia and grievance."

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