Eight years ago, when Donald Trump won his first term, the left and elites were aghast. “How could this happen?” they wailed.
The conventional wisdom at the time was that disinformation on social media and “Russian bots” were to blame. Evidently, the people were hypnotized into voting for Donald Trump. What other explanation could there possibly be?
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In 2024, “there’s no big mystery, like, wow, why did this happen?” said Kelly McBride, a media ethics researcher at the Poynter Institute. “Nobody was tricked into voting for Donald Trump.”
Indeed, no one was “tricked” into voting for Trump in 2016, but admitting that would blow up several narratives — none of them very flattering — about the American people and how they choose their presidents.
Apparently,
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