Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us — How Attention Rewards Falsehoods
What happens when correcting a political falsehood can also help keep it alive?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us by Amanda Carpenter as our lens, this episode investigates Carpenter’s argument that Donald Trump’s 2016 political strategy repeatedly converted provocative claims into attention, conflict, loyalty, and political leverage.
Carpenter identifies a five-step pattern: stake a claim, advance and deny, create suspense, discredit the opponent, and declare victory. Her account of…
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