Facts Are What People Think 0
Writing at my local rag, Joshua Zingler suggests that Donald Trump is a symptom of stupid. A nugget:
Beliefs are not all unique and equal snowflakes; some of them are just totally unfounded.
Forty-three percent of Republicans and 60 percent of Trump supporters believe Barack Obama is a Muslim. Sixty-one percent of Trump supporters think Obama was not born in the United States. Neither is true.
These types of views are not endemic to Obama. Only 35 percent of Trump supporters are worried about the consequences of global warming. A full 25 percent of Republicans (and 15 percent of Democrats) indicated that they were more likely to not vaccinate their children than to vaccinate them.
The consequences for governance from such mistakes are profound. Unfounded opinions get represented like all the others.
