🌱 How Republicans Use Uncertainty as a Weapon

A pattern has emerged in Republican politics over the past several years, a three-part system by which to generate a cloud of uncertainty about certain things

One component is to suggest a failure to treat something unserious as serious is a reflection of an unwillingness to debate, that the party considering the unserious thing as unserious is somehow afraid to confront it.

Another is cherry-picking from huge pools of information, using isolated and usually misconstrued claims to construct alternative narratives.

The third is the existence of a sympathetic media and social universe that collectively agrees the unserious and unproven thing is, in fact, both proven and serious.