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Mark Honigsbaum's avatar

I agree that Musk and disinformation was an important factor in Trump’s victory - I made a similar point in my post on the “red-pilling” of America.

https://open.substack.com/pub/markhonigsbaum/p/what-just-happened?r=rgoak&utm_medium=ios

But on reflection the most important reason for Harris’s defeat was the Democrats’ association with identity politics, which alienated independent voters, and Gaza, which depressed turnout on the Left.

I also think we shouldn’t underestimate the role of the pandemic in undermining incumbents everywhere. That’s why Trump lost by the narrowest of margins in 2020; and Harris could not escape Biden’s legacy of high inflation fuelled by the pandemic and the energy crisis

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Peter English's avatar

Public Health Practitioners and others must call out misinformation when they see it.

But most of them are employed in the public sector - in the UK, in: UKHSA (where they have been made into civil servants, where they used to be NHS staff and thus not as directly controlled by politicians); local government (ditto); or state-funded universities. I don't know how they will be able to speak the truth. They have already parrotted government misinformation (eg Covid-19 was not spread by airborne routes).

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