He said that in an online world awash in information and a real world riven by polarization, "you pick and choose what you want to believe, including sticking your head in the sand.” Trying to refute the theory proves the theory and signals you as a conspirator.”ĭJ Peterson, an expert on authoritarianism and propaganda, is president of Longview Global Advisors, a Los Angeles-based consulting firm, and worked at the Eurasia Group and the RAND Corporation. “Nothing can invalidate the conspiracy theory. “The belief contains a device that protects it,” she said. Once spread by pamphlets, posters and word of mouth, now spread by swipe of finger, the result is the same: a passionate, unquestioning following. It is rooted in the formula of potent propaganda through the ages: Say it loud, say it often, say it with the heft of political power behind you, and people will believe. The fact inversion about the siege is the latest in Trump's contorted oeuvre of the "big lie” compendium, the most specious of which is that the election was stolen from him, when it was not. It's a place where cries of “blue lives matter” have transformed into shouts of “f- the blue.” Months after the then-president's supporters stormed the Capitol that winter day, Trump and his acolytes are taking this revisionism to a new and dangerous place - one of martyrs and warlike heroes, and of revenge. Hate is “love.” Violence is “peace.” The pro-Donald Trump attackers are patriots. WASHINGTON – A cocktail of propaganda, conspiracy theory and disinformation - of the kind intoxicating to the masses in the darkest turns of history - is fueling delusion over the agonies of Jan.
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