> People are not that stupid. We act as if there has to be some majority of opinion for anything to be impacted. > Bruening miscalculated the mood of the nati

> People are not that stupid. We act as if there has to be some majority of opinion for anything to be impacted. > Bruening miscalculated the mood of the nation after six months of economic depression. The Nazis won 18.3 percent of the vote and became the second largest political party in the country.[1] > Roughly one-third of Americans who have heard about it see truth in the conspiracy theory that the COVID-19 outbreak was intentionally planned by people in power [2] We're still fighting a conspiracy from the Middle Ages.[3] And it has overt political support again.[4] [1] https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nazi-rise-to-power https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nazi-r... [2] https://www.journalism.org/2020/06/29/three-months-in-many-americans-see-exaggeration-conspiracy-theories-and-partisanship-in-covid-19-news/ https://www.journalism.org/2020/06/29/three-months-in-many-a... [3] https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-dark-virality-of-a-hollywood-blood-harvesting-conspiracy/ https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-dark-virality-of-a-h... [4] https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/qanon-may-be-coming-congress-and-journalists-need-be-ready https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/qanon-m...