WINGNUTTIA UPDATE….Ed Yong posts this weekend on some research about what happens when people feel they have less control over their lives. The nickel version is that they tend to see patterns that don’t exist, they get more superstitious, and they become ever more captivated by conspiracy theories. You can read Ed’s measured, sober writeup here, or you can just take in Tim F.’s more pungent summary instead:
Anyhow, about peak wingnut theory. Republicans (and Republican bloggers) will spend at least the next two years with about as much political control as a bug in a jar. You can make your own conclusions.
Oh yes. We can. It’s gonna be an entertaining era as long as this remains confined to wingnuttia. If it breaks into the mainstream media, as it did in the 90s, not so much.
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