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It was a time of deep division between urban and rural Americans. Many white, devoutly Protestant, rural Americans looked at the country’s increasingly diverse cities with suspicion. They feared that the political power they had long enjoyed was about to slip from their grasp. These conservatives waded in a swamp of conspiracy theories and misinformation made possible by an expanding media universe. The theories convinced people that they were in danger and America was on the brink of disaster. They responded with violence and discrimination. I’m not writing about our current era; I’m describing the anti-Catholic panic that captivated America a little more than a century ago. The right-wing conspiratorial playbook is at least a century old, and we can clearly see the predecessors of President Donald J. Trump (R-Florida) and Fox News in an influential, ideological newspaper from Missouri.
It was a time of deep division between urban and rural Americans. Many white, devoutly Protestant, rural Americans looked at the country’s increasingly diverse cities with suspicion. They feared that the political power they had long enjoyed was about to slip from their grasp. These conservatives waded in a swamp of conspiracy theories and misinformation made possible by an expanding media universe. The theories convinced people that they were in danger and America was on the brink of disaster. They responded with violence and discrimination. I’m not writing about our current era; I’m describing the anti-Catholic panic that captivated America a little more than a century ago. The right-wing conspiratorial playbook is at least a century old, and we can clearly see the predecessors of President Donald J. Trump (R-Florida) and Fox News in an influential, ideological newspaper from Missouri.
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