“It’s A Wonder Tall Trees Ain’t Layin’ Down”

Misinformation has created an alternative world for many Americans. Good one by @donie https://t.co/gMd0qMzHpA

— Alyssa Farah Griffin (@Alyssafarah) April 28, 2024

I honestly don’t know a time when this was not true. Conspiracy theories are as American as apple pie. In that, Nixon was Trump’s predecessor. And yet Nixon finally became an elder statesman, and was always defended for his foreign policy successes.

Trump is bad; but he’s not sui generis. I knew perfectly reasonable people who died thinking Nixon was railroaded. The line between that and any other conspiracy theory (what was Nixon’s paranoia, if not a personal conspiracy theory?) is a thin one, indeed.

There is, indeed, nothing new under the sun.