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Richard Hanania Returns: How Status Competition Created the Culture War

From the New World

CHAPTER

The Myth of the Rational Voter

Sally Kohn: Most people are like self-jossaf, do not think that they're wrong about things and continue to believe those things. In a sense, yes, Stalin believed in Lysenkoism. If you put a gun to his head at the moment and said, you know, we're going to see whether Lysenkoism or Darwinism is true, I think he would have been more likely to fight for what was correct. She says it feels as strongly as they feel as strongly as you or I believe in any of our beliefs. The myth of the rational voter by Brad Kaplan talks about this one part of the book where he talks about the Soviet Union's views

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