Jordan Greenhall: Genuine Conversation and the Intellectual Dark Web + The Paradox of the Times
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The Alt-Right and the Insurgency
I articulated this narrative, I guess, right after the 2016 election. And honestly I feel like the things that play out pretty much as described. First the insurgency both formally through the Trump administration and informally through the kind of cluster of human beings who are gathering under this new medium have overtly identified the mass media as fake news. Rush Limbaugh has been saying this for a while but now it is the narrative. The most recent polls showed that something like 75% of Americans believe that the media is engaged in over manipulation or reckless propaganda.
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