“If I were to remain silent, I’d be guilty of complicity.” –Albert Einstein
On November 13 the PBS News Hour aired a five-minute segment on Donald Trump’s Veterans Day campaign rally in New Hampshire. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a historian specializing in autocracy and Italian fascism, provided a scholarly assessment, which left me no choice but to sit through Trump’s two-hour monologue. After all, I was about to write a summary of the 12th and final lecture in a Propaganda and Persuasion Great Courses series on the capstone subject of misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories.
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