An astute observation from a Princeton Historian found on Twitter

[bucolic_frolic]

Julian Zelizer
@julianzelizer

Birtherism, Climate Change Denialism, Covid Denialism, Election Denialism—it’s a pattern.

8:46 AM · Nov 11, 2020 from Manhattan, NY·Twitter for iPhone

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[Wicked Blue]

1. They should bear in mind

that De Nile is filled with crocodiles

[BComplex]

2. ...a pattern of people with snakes in their heads.

I don't know how you UN-CULT, deprogram, a bunch of nipple-brained douche bags.

[Cartaphelius]

3. I object to your slandering of nipples!

[BComplex]

14. Nipples have their place! Exactly!

Nipple BRAINS, however, aren't that large, nor that useful, and are definitely useless.

[Cartaphelius]

15. But nipple BRAINS?

My nipple shudder at attribution of any kind, especially BRAINS.

Nipples are all erotic, all the time, 24/7.

BRAINS however are not a given, in any fashion. Alive or dead.

But hey, if it works for you, good on ya!

[KS Toronado]

4. Denialism, it's the only thing repugs have, so sad.

[Nasruddin]

5. De-Nihilists

I got nutin'

[StClone]

6. Earth is Flat though

[hibbing]

7. Reality Denialism, would make a good punk band name n/t

[Traildogbob]

8. But they easily believe

Two white men, Noah and Adam, incestually populated the whole world, and somehow many colors evolved, but only whites was gods intention.
Guessing since inbreeding creates genetic flaws, those other colors are genetic mistakes through daughter and sister breeding.
I can see a New TV series, “People Believe the Darnedest things”. Unlimited material.

[Mosby]

9. Trump's Forever Campaign Is Just Getting Started

While you watch Donald Trump’s presidency stagger to what appears to be its ugly end, always keep in mind how it began: Trump entered the political world on the back of the birther conspiracy theory, a movement whose importance was massively underestimated at the time. Aside from its racist undertones, think about what a belief in birtherism really implied. If you doubted that Barack Obama was born in the United States—and about a third of Americans did, including 72 percent of registered Republicans—then that meant you also believed that Obama was an illegitimate president. That meant, in other words, you believed that everyone—the entire American political, judicial, and media establishment, including the White House and Congress, the federal courts and the FBI, all of them—was complicit in a gigantic plot to swindle the public into accepting this false commander in chief. A third of Americans had so little faith in American democracy, broadly defined, they were willing to think that Obama’s entire presidency was a fraud.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214475886

[SlogginThroughIt]

10. I didn't even stay at a hokiday in express

and I could have told you that!

[BobTheSubgenius]

11. I wish he could have expanded on his thesis.

OK. It's a pattern....of what? The short answer is "the current state of 'conservatism,'" but what links all of these into a coherent pattern?

[bucolic_frolic]

12. The denial of all reality outside of Trump's mind?

Maybe a good fit, that's pretty comprehensive.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

13. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt

- Stuart Smalley