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From The Hill:
Approximately 4 in 10 Americans who say that they trust far-right news outlets like OANN and Newsmax said that they believe the false theory that the government and other institutions are controlled by “Satan-worshipping pedophiles.”
Oh, don’t worry, it gets worse. More from PRRI:
A nontrivial 15% of Americans agree with the sweeping QAnon allegation that “the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation,” while the vast majority of Americans (82%) disagree with this statement. Republicans (23%) are significantly more likely than independents (14%) and Democrats (8%) to agree that the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation.
The constant drip campaign of Republicans to change the news into a doomsday scenario nightly has resulted in the brainwashing of members of not just their own base, but a vitriolic response from everyone rejecting the message.
The survey of 5,625 respondents makes it clear what is going wrong with the Republican Party. Those who get their news primarily from right-wing sources are four times more likely to believe conspiracy theories than those who receive their news from reputable news sources.
In the meantime, the Republican Party—which is becoming more and more in the pocket of the radicals—has become the party that embraces the Weekly World News standard of journalism: Print it, hope people are entertained, and don’t worry about the truth.
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