Carlos Lozada
On True Enough Part Three
The less we can trust the government and their lackeys in the media, the more appealing insane conspiracy theories will be, and Lozada, like many, is still fixated on the lying and conspiracism of Trump.
“Totalitarian rulers rely on the compulsion with which we can compel ourselves, for the limited mobilization of people which even they still need; this inner compulsion is the tyranny of logicality against which nothing stands but the great capacity of men to start something new. The tyranny of logicality begins with the mind’s submission to logic as a never-ending process, on which man relies in order to engender his thoughts. By this submission, he surrenders his inner freedom as he surrenders his freedom of movement when he bows down to an outward tyranny.”[i]– Hannah Arendt
“Was it a birth certificate? You tell me. Some people say that was not his birth certificate. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t. I’m saying I don’t know. Nobody knows.”[ii]– Donald Trump
“After that first moon landing in 1942, the Nazi base expanded rapidly, first beneath the surface and then above ground as they continued to send heavy construction equipment to the moon throughout the war in successive trips from Base 211 in Antarctica (Neuschwabenland), using the Haunebu I and II spacecraft.”[iii]– Len Kasten
The ‘new conspiracism’, where Trump is seen as its embodiment, is ridiculous anti-Trump theorizing. Tying conspiracism, which is “conspiracy theory without the theory”, to Trump and his movement is inaccurate, as much of what is deemed conspiracism is real. Examples are what Trump, and his acolytes refer to as the ‘deep state’. Figures on the left speak of a similar apparatus, and usually call it the permanent state, the bureaucratic state, the security state, or simply the military-industrial complex. There was an effort in the CIA, the FBI, and the corporate media to sabotage Trump’s election, both in 2016, during his presidency, and in 2020, and an infamous example is the Russiagate conspiracy, and also attempts to surround Trump with officials who would talk him out of certain ideas, like getting out of Afghanistan and Syria, which he was elected to do. In his Syria withdrawal, we learned in late 2020 that around 250 troops had been left in Syria behind Trump’s back.[iv] During the transition between Trump and Biden in 2021, after the Capitol riot, General Mark Milley contacted the Chinese foreign minister and ensured him that if Trump tried to start a war with them, he would intervene.[v] This is documented in Bob Wooward’s third book in his silly trilogy on the Trump White House, and is reported as if Milley was being heroic, however, this is incredibly dangerous, as Trump was duly elected, whether his detractors like it.[vi] The approval of Milley’s subversive behavior reveals the partisanship inherent in the new conspiracism argument. This is an example of an unelected official, a member of the deep or permanent state, subverting an elected president. It proves what is deemed conspiracism to be reality.
Conspiracism is not unique to Trump, Russiagate, the nature and identity of Trump’s movement, Trump being the reincarnation of Hitler, if what comes after Trump is scary, it will not be believed. This is not Trump’s fault, it is a propagandic media apparatus that clings to myths in the face of its demise. Lozada relies on Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum’s book A Lot of People Are Saying, and they make the new conspiracism argument. Lozada does not consider that Trump’s opposition engages in conspiracism. Russiagate was, like Qanon and the birther conspiracy, a conspiracy without the theory, and it was more like a Robert Ludlum novel than a real timeline of events. Clowns like Luke Harding and Jonathan Chait held out for the Muller testimony, only to be proved fools, and instead of admitting defeat they doubled down. If Trump claiming Obama is not an American citizen is conspiracism, so is bunk about Trump being cultivated by Russia from his early visits to the Soviet Union in the 1980’s. There is no new conspiracism, there is only an attempt to tie Trump, his movement, and the Republican party to magical thinking and mythmaking, and to present his opposition as the protectors of truth and democracy. However, conspiracism is a mutual act. For all the conspiracism pushed by Trump, much of which turned out to be either true or to have slivers of truth to them, his opposition engaged in far more effective and sinister conspiracism. The same way that Muirhead and Rosenblum, as well as Lozada, refer to Trump’s conspiracism could be used to refer to the Democratic party’s conspiracism during Trump’s campaigns in 2016 and 2020, his presidency, and still to this day. Apparently, Trump’s reality manifests in conspiracism, as he claims that “Millions of people voted illegally in California, Trump claims, otherwise he would have won the popular vote in 2016. President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower. The hacked Democratic National Committee server was in Ukraine, where the real election interference originated. Democrats and the press pushed a coronavirus “hoax” to undercut his reelection chances; once the virus became too real and too fatal to dismiss, it morphed into a cunning foreign plot.”, when in reality, the investigation into Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia during the 2016 election begun under the Obama administration resulted in Trump’s internet traffic being spied on in his Manhattan apartment, Trump Tower, and the Executive Office of the President, and the hacked DNC server was never investigated by the FBI, and it was never proven by Crowdstrike, the private firm to which investigating the DNC server was outsourced, that Russia was behind the hack, and while not a foreign plot, the CCP definitely knew about Coronavirus as early as October 2019, and allowed flights to leave China as late as early 2020, and it is still unclear whether the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan.[vii] The point is that dismissing Trump’s conspiracism as ridiculous and preposterous is a failure to understand why it appeals to people and why the conspiracism of his opposition is not seen in the same way. There are slivers of truth to Trump’s claims. It may have taken years to prove much of what he said, but there is evidently so much abuse of power and influence by his opposition that to act like Washington is the MAGA conspiracists pitted against the wondrous Democratic party, final bastion of democracy and truth, is absurd.
Apparently, the new conspiracism is the notion that with Trump, there is conspiracy and no theory, there is the validation of tribalism over that of experts, and it is more about repetition and how untruths are delivered more than the actual content. Lozada misses a chance here to challenge this claim, as Muirhead and Rosenblum could be talking about the anti-Trump tribe. Consider all who were blamed for Clinton’s loss in 2016, from Julian Assange to Jill Stein, all except Clinton herself, and then consider the absurd lengths people would go to try and prove that Trump is a Russian asset, from his wanting to bring Russia back into the G7 to attacking NATO. Lozada has a glaring blind spot, and it makes reading this chapter frustrating, as he is not being nuanced in his analysis at all. He simply parrots the arguments made by Muirhead and Rosenblum, reinforcing them with his own points, instead of offering critical analysis. This failure to provide any introspection makes the experience of reading the works of these supposed experts on conspiracism nauseating, as we are meant to treat the right and conservative voters as zoo animals to be studied from afar, like Steve Irwin in the wild, or David Attenborough on BBC. One can imagine narration over rural voters going about their days: “Watch as the Trump voter tills his fields endlessly, and then listen as he mindlessly parrots the mantras of QAnon, the cult inspired by his dear leader, Trump.”
Conspiracism is not unique to Trump or his voters. Lozada falls into the trap many journalists fell into when covering Trump and his coalition, as they saw their job more as a trek into the wild than a conversation with people who think and vote differently, and that is why for example, so many were shocked that Trump gained such a massive upswing in support in 2020. Muirhead and Rosenblum’s notion of there being a ‘new conspiracism’ merits a challenge, and Lozada doesn’t offer one, and he instead lauds it and agrees with their arguments. Lozada reiterates from their book, “if a lot of people are saying it, to use Trump’s signature phrase, then it is true enough.”[viii] Indeed, if a lot of people are saying Trump works for Russia, we must overthrow Assad in Syria, we had to overthrow Qaddafi in Libya, there were WMD’s in Iraq, Clinton and Biden were truly the lesser of two evils, Assange is a traitor employed by the Russian government, there were Iraqi soldiers tossing babies out of incubators in Kuwait, then it’s true enough to shape policy, and it did, and we are now reaping the consequences of this and many more conspiracy theories. These conspiracy theories were laundered by the mainstream media and pushed the US into endless, fruitless wars and led to a domestic polity ripped apart by faux division. Lozada misses out on this larger point to the detriment of his stated goal to be nuanced in his analysis, but also to all of us who seek truth and peace.
Crazier than QAnon
“The majority of frogs in most areas of the United States are now gay,”[ix]– Alex Jones
There is conspiracism that is much more insane than QAnon. Notable examples are the dark fleet, the reptilian elite, new age conspiracism, and such fantastical ideas are pedaled by figures like David Icke. Conspiracy theories are not new, certainly those pushed by Trump and his movement are not. Some are true. Muirhead and Rosenblum write in an academic article about conspiracism and partisanship, and the truth in conspiracy.[x] Recent revelations in the CIA involvement in the JFK assassination are an example of this. A conspiracy long called baseless and the stuff of the tin foil hat brigade, a trove of newly declassified documents shows that there is much more than originally thought about how involved the CIA was in the event.[xi] There are more documents that have not been declassified yet, even though legally they must be.[xii] The CIA is fighting to keep many documents classified. This should at least raise suspicions in anyone interested in truth and transparency.
Lozada would do well to brush up on conspiracism in its entirety, not just as it relates directly to Trump. Is QAnon insane? Yes, absolutely, but it is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to fantasies of elite cabals and secret networks of puppet masters controlling the globe. In his books Alien World Order: The Reptilian Plan to Divide and Conquer the Human Race, and Dark Fleet: The Secret Nazi Space Program and the Battle for the Solar System, the conspiracist writer Leo Kasten discusses top secret government programs consisting of work with Nazis and the alleged ‘Fourth Reich’ in the Antarctica as part of a centuries long program overseen by a breed of technologically advanced aliens.[xiii] To support this insanity, Kasten interviews people apparently used in super soldier experiments and former military and government officials with knowledge of these top-secret programs.[xiv] Kasten argues from the outset of his book that humanity is in a battle for its existence that spans across multiple galaxies and planets, and that myths like Atlantis were creations of the Atlans, who were a breed of advanced humans sent to destroy the Reptilians, who had taken over the Earth. According to Kasten, the Atlans killed all the dinosaurs because they were destroying all their crops, and due to the impact of their electromagnetic technology, the earth’s surface became wrecked by storms and volcanoes eruptions. The Reptilians then fled underground, building a vast and intricate high speed rail network. As Kasten concludes in his opening chapter, “The battle for planet Earth had just begun.”[xv] To Kasten, earth has been fought over by advanced alien races who seek to exploit our resources and ultimately us. He also has a chapter on an interplanetary mining operation, and several chapters on the rise of the Fourth Reich and the Dark Fleet, and Kasten takes the conspiracy theory that Adolf Hitler was not killed in 1945 and he imagines an intricate plot of divine, advanced beings’ intent on winning the supposed battle for earth.[xvi]
Of much interest is Kasten’s evidence, which, in his section on the US governments super soldier programs, comes from former super soldiers, allegedly. He opens this section on super soldiers with a brief discussion of the wonders of age regression, which occurs when a person is abducted from earth, is then forced to live under the control of ICC scientists, where they are employed on a contract basis, and the abductee ages normally during this time, but when they fulfill their contract, they are regressed back to the instance in which they were abducted, and “It would be just as if that time spent off planet had never happened! “[xvii]Kasten must be a huge film buff, as this theory sounds like a science fiction version of Renny Harlin’s film The Long Kiss Goodnight, written by Shane Black, where a former CIA assassin gets into a car accident, suffers from amnesia and during her time as a schoolteacher in a small town with her family, discovers that she has skills with knives and combat.[xviii] Many parts of Kasten’s narrative mirror the plots and aspects of films. In his book on the alien world order, he argues that authors like H. Wells were prophetic in their science fiction. In this book on the Dark Fleet, he argues that Phillip K. Dick, in writing “We Remember it for you Wholesale”, the short story that was adapted into Paul Verhoven’s Total Recall, written by Gary Oldman, was the result of Dick’s subconscious knowing the truth about our reality.[xix] Dick’s multiple marriages and problems with drugs are pointed to as evidence of this.[xx]
One story about an apparent super soldier that is laughably absurd is about Pero, who could allegedly jump out of a plan without a parachute and be unharmed, was trained by the Illuminati to be an assassin, and after completing his tenth mission, sought counselling.[xxi] On finally escaping the clutches of the Illuminati, Kasten writes that “Pero’s life was threatened several times after he went public, but ultimately they found that they had succeeded all too well in creating a Frankenstein, as Pero estimated that he had to kill fifteen of his handlers before finally escaping from the program.”[xxii] Yes, I’m sure Pero handily killed fifteen ‘handlers’, then escaped out a hatch, brushing the dirt off his shoulders and moving on with his life of blazing glory. Reading sections like this in the book, it seems like all that’s missing are the end credits, as Kasten’s zany theories read more like rejected science fiction stories than actual scientific output. It’s hard to keep in mind that Kasten is writing non-fiction here.
There are many who subscribe to these and similar theories. This sort of new age conspiracism, that melds valid critiques of corporate and elite power with bizarre ideas about reptilian beings and interplanetary mining operations, is only growing in popularity. While it is not required that Lozada delve into this absurd library, it would add a hint of nuance lacking in his narrow view on conspiracism and where it comes from. As insane as QAnon is, there are far more lunatic theories and Kasten is not the only writer making the arguments that he does. In his books, he offers reading lists consisting of his colleagues and others who make similar arguments. The imagination at work in Kasten’s theorizing, like that of scientology founder Ron L. Hubbard, is impressive and makes for an entertaining narrative.
Conclusion
“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.”[xxiii]– David Icke
Some of what is referred to as conspiracism by Lozada and the other anti-Trump books that he analyzes is real; the deep state trying to sabotage Trump, and his opposition engages in conspiracism, Russiagate is a notable example, and those who pushed it had no evidence, yet printed stories that were constantly debunked, and Alfa Bank, Paul Manafort visiting Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy, and the idea that Putin was controlling Trump. It was all part of the Trump circus act. These stories are doubled down on, and there will never be accountability for the officials or media outlets, including Lozada’s own The Washington Post, for pushing junk stories. What Trump is accused of, spreading lies whether there was evidence, and digging in his heels when they are disproven, is certainly true, but this also characterized so much of the reporting on the Trump presidency. If it makes Trump look bad, it’s published. If it bolsters the Russian collusion narrative, it’s published.
It’s notable that the same journalists who pushed Russiagate also pushed WMD stories leading up to the invasion of Iraq, like David Remnick of the New Yorker, and Jonathan Chait of the New York Times. Journalists like Matt Taibbi, who called Russiagate “this generations WMD”, or Glenn Greenwald, who lamented the time and resources wasted on the Russia investigation as distraction from what the Trump administration was doing, are cast aside. One of Trump’s biggest problems was excess and exaggeration, so even when he was right, he was partially right. On the deep state, he certainly touched on an important issue, especially as it relates to war making in Washington, but him and Steve Bannon distorted the reality of the deep state. It was not about Trump, it was more about ensuring that the status quo remained unchanged, as it felt under threat by Trump’s calls to bring troops home from the Middle East, his desire for peace with Russia and other states. This is partly why dismissing Trump’s claims about a deep state as conspiracism are faulty and dangerous. If you want to instill real change, the deep, permanent, or security state, whatever you want to call it, must be challenged. Being elected is not enough. Lozada falls into the trap of this dismissal, not realizing its long term consequences, and in most conspiracy theories, there are grains of truth, especially in New Age conspiracism, like in the work of Icke and Kasten. In works that argue that there are a race of aliens that have captured and enslaved humanity who now conduct interplanetary mining operations from bases in Antarctica, there is a sliver of truth, and that is that there is an issue with capture and exploitation by transnational corporations and neoliberal elites.
Anti-globalization, a trend on both the left and the right, is a reaction to the consequences of globalism, and while not defensible, it is understandable that zany conspiracies proliferate across the West. We do not need, as so many argue, a new theory of conpiracism, as conspiracism did not begin when Trump started running for president, nor did it begin when he pushed birtherism during Obama’s presidency. From theories that the moon landing was faked, the earth is flat, to the notion that birds are not real, there are shreds of truth, and the most significant shred of truth is that government and corporations are deserving of distrust and disdain, and mainstream media outlets are as well. Thus, the entities who once kept such theorizing in check, that distinguished themselves from independent radio shows or podcasts as arbiters of reliable and verified information are now exposed for engaging in conspiracism themselves. The most blatant example of this is of course Russigate, which will be discussed in the next post, as Lozada dedicates an entire chapter to this aspect of the Trump presidency, titled “Russian Lit”. The works of authors like Luke Harding, a deranged liar and conspiracist, are analyzed as well as a few works by Pro-Trump writers who argue that the Russiagate hoax was a plot to topple Trump, and they’re not entirely wrong.
To conclude on the “True Enough” chapter, it is evident that Lozada has infused his analysis with anti-Trump biases. If conspiracism in the West and America interests him, especially as it relates to Trump, he would realize that conspiracism is deep seated in America and that it long predates Trump. As noted, I will review Muir and Rosenblum’s book separately, but I brought some of my analysis of it in this discussion to highlight Lozada’s most glaring blind spot, and that is his preference for anti-Trump literature and lapses into anti-Trump arguments himself. Lozada does little to challenge the arguments of Muir and Rosenblum. For example, Lozada notes that Muir and Rosenblum argue that “Trump’s conspiracies don’t just undermine particular facts but seek to tear down the way truths are reached and agreed upon.”[xxiv] What? Isn’t that what propaganda, a method of delivering false and jingoistic information that not only breaks down truth but the process of how it is reached? This is a major problem in not only the Muir and Rosenblum’s work, but in Lozada’s analysis of it, as he does not challenge their arguments where he should. The process noted in the quote above is not unique to Trump. Every administration since the second world war has spread propaganda around the world, especially during the Red Scare.
Lozada claims that “A Lot of People Are Saying is among the most clarifying of the recent books in the truth genre because it captures not only the methods and intent of the president’s deceit but also its appeal and impact.”[xxv] Firstly, no it is not clarifying, as I’ve previously noted, Lozada acts like conspiracism started with Trump, and that he mainstreamed it by pushing it from the White House. Importantly, Muir and Rosenblum’s book caters to an anti-Trump audience. This is inevitably an audience who wants to hear about how Trump pushes conspiracism and how his supporters fall for it, and because of this his base is impossible to talk to. Thus Lozada is showing here that he is vehemently anti-Trump, as Lozada writes, “For all the mockery by Trump supporters of liberal sensitivities, Trump’s untruths sell best precisely when feelings overpower facts, when America becomes a safe space for fabrication, when “true enough” is all you need.” Yes, Trump’s untruths sell best when feelings override facts, but so do those of his opposition. Many people, not just voters, but news hosts and politicians, engage in McCarthyism and fabrication constantly in reaction to Trump. True enough is all you need because for many, when it comes to taking down Trump, truth is not important, taking out Trump is. Consider the multitude of media mistakes made during the Trump era, carefully catalogued by Sharyl Atkisson, and consider the lies about the Hunter Biden laptop story, how is that not conspiracism?[xxvi] According to the analysis of Muir and Rosenblum, and of Lozada, Trump and his movement engage in conspiracism, and his opposition, the #resistance, are resisting a maniacal tyrant at all costs. The ends justify the means. As Fritz Stern argues, totalitarian ideologies are born out of hatred and despair, and an important element of the rise of totalitarian movements is not just the deception of the ruling ideologues, but the people yearning to be deceived, as reality for many is too painful and uncomfortable.[xxvii] For the anti-Trump crowd, Trump as president and his antics are too much to accept, and his rise being allowed by the failures of his predecessors and of his opponent in the 2016 election is incomprehensible, thus conspiracism is necessary. It was not Russia, or a bunch of racist hillbillies in Kentucky, but that Hillary Clinton is awful or that Obama was useless.
Anti-Trump voters want to be deceived and are ripe for manipulation, just as Republican voters are. Lozada fails to live up to his promise in his introduction to be nuanced in his analysis. His reading list and the way he fails to challenge the anti-Trump books he explores betrays this. This is unfortunate, as Muir and Rosenblum’s book provides an opportunity to investigate the roots of conspiracism and how it relates to movements, not just Trump’s, that are a backlash against globalism. Now more than ever, in the face of far-right parties across the West rising to power, we need a nuanced discourse on populism and conspiracism. The lunacy of conspiracy theories like the reptilian world order or the Fourth Reich must enter the discussion, as a lot of conspiracism appeals to an increasing number of people who distrust government. As Marc Hetherington argued in 2015 during the Republican primaries, Trump, and Ben Carson, at the time the candidates with no political experience in the primary field, together had over 50 percent of the vote, and this was due to a lack of trust in Washington.[xxviii] The same trend was evident in the Democratic primaries and the success of Bernie Sanders. The less we can trust the government and their lackeys in the media, the more appealing insane conspiracy theories will be, and Lozada, like many, is still fixated on the lying and conspiracism of Trump.
[i] Arendt, Hannah. Origins Of Totalitarianism. The Origins of Totalitarianism. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968.
[ii] Krieg, Gregory. “14 of Trump’s Most Outrageous ‘Birther’ Claims — Half from after 2011.” CNN, September 16, 2016. https://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/09/politics/donald-trump-birther/index.html.
[iii] Kasten, Len. Dark Fleet. Simon and Schuster, 2020.
[iv] Bo WIlliams, Katie. “Outgoing Syria Envoy Admits Hiding US Troop Numbers; Praises Trump’s Mideast Record.” Defense One, November 12, 2020. https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/outgoing-syria-envoy-admits-hiding-us-troop-numbers-praises-trumps-mideast-record/170012/.
[v] Baldor, Lolita C., and Robert Burns. “Milley Defends Calls to Chinese at End of Trump Presidency.” AP NEWS, September 28, 2021. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-china-arts-and-entertainment-army-74ad214fdfbf0f8422a762e8f6657862.
[vi] Woodward, Bob, and Robert Costa. Peril. Simon and Schuster, 2021.
[vii] Winter, Tom. “Tech Exec Looked for Trump Dirt on White House Computers, Says Durham.” NBC News, February 15, 2022. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/tech-exec-used-access-white-house-computers-look-dirt-trump-says-speci-rcna16123., Varghese, Sam. “ITWire – CrowdStrike Chief Admits No Proof That Russia Exfiltrated DNC Emails.” itwire.com, May 13, 2020. https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/crowdstrike-chief-admits-no-proof-that-russia-exfiltrated-dnc-emails.html., and Stanway, David. “First COVID-19 Case Could Have Emerged in China in Oct 2019 – Study.” Reuters, June 25, 2021. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/first-covid-19-case-could-have-hit-china-oct-2019-study-2021-06-25/.
[viii] Lozada, Carlos. What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020.
[ix] Tucker Higgins. “Alex Jones’ 5 Most Disturbing and Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories.” CNBC. CNBC, September 14, 2018. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/alex-jones-5-most-disturbing-ridiculous-conspiracy-theories.html.
[x] Muirhead, Russell, and Nancy L. Rosenblum. “Speaking Truth to Conspiracy: Partisanship and Trust.” Critical Review 28, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 63–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/08913811.2016.1173981.
[xi] Grim, Ryan, and Jefferson Morley. “Deconstructed: What We Found in the New JFK Files.” The Intercept, December 23, 2022. https://theintercept.com/2022/12/22/deconstructed-jfk-files-cia/.
[xii] Shenon, Philip. “Why We Still Don’t Have the JFK Assassination Files.” POLITICO, November 15, 2022. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/11/15/jfk-assassination-files-conspiracy-fbi-00066780.
[xiii] Kasten, Len. Alien World Order: The Reptilian Plan to Divide and Conquer the Human Race. Rochester, Vermont: Bear & Company, 2017., and Dark Fleet.
[xiv] Kasten, Dark Fleet.
[xv] Kasten, Dark Fleet.
[xvi] Kasten, Dark Fleet.
[xviii] The Long Kiss Goodnight. United States: New Line Cinema, 1996.
[xix] Kasten, Dark Fleet.
[xx] Kasten, Dark Fleet.
[xxi] Kasten, Dark Fleet.
[xxii] Kasten, Dark Fleet.
[xxiii] Hague, Neil, and David Icke. Human Race Get off Your Knees: The Lion Sleeps No More. Editorial: Isle of Wight, Uk: David Icke Books, 2010.
[xxiv] Lozada. What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era.
[xxv] Lozada. What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era.
[xxvi] Attkisson, Sharyl. “Media Mistakes in the Trump Era: The Definitive List | Sharyl Attkisson.” sharylattkisson.com, 2023. https://sharylattkisson.com/2022/03/50-media-mistakes-in-the-trump-era-the-definitive-list/.
[xxvii] Stern, Fritz. The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
[xxviii] Hetherington, Marc. “Trust in Trump Comes from Lack of Trust in Government.” Brookings, September 16, 2015. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2015/09/16/trust-in-trump-comes-from-lack-of-trust-in-government/.
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