Four lessons on today's toxic far-right conspiracy theories from Neiwert's 'Red Pill, Blue Pill'
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The award for the scariest book I’ve read all year goes to David Neiwert’s Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us. You can be aware of the alt right and the white supremacists and QAnon and the rest oFour lessons on today's toxic far-right conspiracy theories from Neiwert's 'Red Pill, Blue Pill'
The award for the scariest book I’ve read all year goes to David Neiwert’s Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us. You can be aware of the alt right and the white supremacists and QAnon and the rest of them and be concerned, maybe even scared of meeting with their violence in a specific context. But taking a deep, sustained look at the scope and reach of these conspiracy theories is something different. Since Neiwert is my coworker at Daily Kos, readers would reasonably suspect the fix was in if I tried to write a standard book review of Red Pill, Blue Pill. What I want to do instead is sketch out four key things I learned from the book, information that will expand my understanding of not just far-right extremists but U.S. politics more generally going forward, as well as two big questions I have after reading the book—one of them an urgent question in the context of the upcoming elections. Read more