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Why did the madness take over people’s minds?

Posted on November 28, 2022 by Naomi

For all these years, since 2016, there is that agonizing question: why did people we thought were intelligent and rational vote for Trump? My current answer — which I admit emerges from a sort of intellectual stupor coming from the … Continue reading →

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“The backfire effect”: another reason people still support Trump

Posted on February 20, 2019 by Naomi

I learn so much from reading the New York Times’ readers’ comments. Yesterday, in response to the usual thousands of plaintive, furious comments along the lines of “How does anyone still support this monstrosity?”, Mary, from Connecticut, wrote this: It’s … Continue reading →

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Trump and US crime rates: a chasm between fact and fear-mongering

Posted on June 28, 2018 by Naomi

As the Brennan Center reports, crime rates in the U.S. remain at an historic low. Yet Trump continues his fact-free fear-mongering about crime. And apparently the Trump Base still gets excited by the dumb horror movie he’s scripted. Why? I … Continue reading →

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