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Anand Giridharadas "The Persuaders"

LA Review of Books

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The Pro-Democracy Movement

The right understands that people are receiving those stimuli all the time, making observations about their society. That to me is the way to understand something like Fox News. It is trying to weaponize big feelings you are having because of things in your life and it's trying to take you from those to fearing an alien invasion on the southern border. No one starts that way. Regular people do not start that way. They have to be radicalized into that.

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