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Eric Bradner, “Trump Praises 9/11 Truther’s ‘Amazing’ Reputation,” CNN Politics, Dec. 2, 2015.
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Maggie Haberman, Michael D. Shear, and Glenn Thrush, “Stephen Bannon Out at the White House After Turbulent Run,” New York Times, Aug. 18, 2017.
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Greg Miller, Greg Jaffe, and Philip Rucker, “Doubting the Intelligence, Trump Pursues Putin and Leaves a Russian Threat Unchecked,” Washington Post, Dec. 14, 2017; Carol D. Leonnig, Shane Harris, and Greg Jaffe, “Breaking with Tradition, Trump Skips President’s Written Intelligence Report and Relies on Oral Briefings,” Washington Post, Feb. 9, 2018.
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Charlie Warzel and Lam Thuy Vo, “Here’s Where Donald Trump Gets His News,” BuzzFeed, Dec. 3, 2016; Dean Obeidallah, “Trump Talks Judgment, Then Cites National Enquirer,” CNN, May 4, 2016.
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Haberman, Thrush, and Baker, “Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle for Self-Preservation.”
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Alex Thompson, “Trump Gets a Folder Full of Positive News About Himself Twice a Day,” Vice News, Aug. 9, 2017.
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Benjamin Hart, “Trump on Unfilled State Department Jobs: ‘I Am the Only One That Matters,’” New York, Nov. 3, 2017; Bill Chappell, “ ‘I’m the Only One That Matters,’ Trump Says of State Dept. Job Vacancies,” The Two-Way, NPR, Nov. 3, 2017.
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Lydia Saad, “Americans Widely Support Tighter Regulations on Gun Sales,” Gallup, Oct. 17, 2017.
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Max Greenwood, “Poll: Nearly 9 in 10 Want DACA Recipients to Stay in US,” Hill, Jan. 18, 2018.
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Harper Neidig, “Poll: 83 Percent of Voters Support Keeping FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules,” Hill, Dec. 12, 2017; Cecilia Kang, “F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules,” New York Times, Dec. 14, 2017.
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Susan Jacoby, The Age of American Unreason (New York: Pantheon, 2008), 307; Farhad Manjoo, True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society (Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2008); Andrew Keen, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture (New York: Doubleday, 2007).
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Jacoby, Age of American Unreason, xviii.
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Jacoby, Age of American Unreason, 307.
47
Al Gore, The Assault on Reason (New York: Penguin Press, 2007), 1.
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Al Gore, The Assault on Reason (New York: Penguin Press, 2007), 38–39.
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Michiko Kakutani, “How Feuds and Failures Affected American Intelligence,” New York Times, June 18, 2004; Michiko Kakutani, “All the President’s Books (Minding History’s Whys and Where-fores),” New York Times, May 11, 2006; Julian Borger, “The Spies Who Pushed for War,” Guardian, July 17, 2003; Jason Vest and Robert Dreyfuss, “The Lie Factory,” Mother Jones, Jan./Feb. 2004; Seymour M. Hersh, “Selective Intelligence,” New Yorker, May 12, 2003; Michiko Kakutani, “Controversial Reports Become Accepted Wisdom,” New York Times, Sept. 28, 2004; Dana Milbank and Claudia Deane, “Hussein Link to 9/11 Lingers in Many Minds,” Washington Post, Sept. 6, 2003.
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Kakutani, “All the President’s Books.”
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Ken Adelman, “Cakewalk in Iraq,” Washington Post, Feb. 13, 2002.
52
Michiko Kakutani, “From Planning to Warfare to Occupation, How Iraq Went Wrong,” New York Times, July 25.
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Eugene Kiely, “Donald Trump and the Iraq War,” FactCheck.org, Feb. 19, 2016.
54
Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, “Bannon Vows a Daily Fight for ‘De-construction of the Administrative State,’ ” Washington Post, Feb. 23, 2017.
55
Victor Cha, “Giving North Korea a ‘Bloody Nose’ Carries a Huge Risk to Americans,” Washington Post, Jan. 30, 2018.
56
Bill Chappell, “World’s Regard for U. S. Leadership Hits Record Low in Gallup Poll,” NPR, Jan. 19, 2018; Laura Smith-Spark, “US Slumps in Global Leadership Poll After Trump’s 1st Year,” CNN, Jan. 18, 2018.
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Michiko Kakutani, “The Cult of the Amateur,” New York Times, June 29, 2007.
58
Tom Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 20.
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Tom Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 11.
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Carlos Ballesteros, “Trump Is Nominating Unqualified Judges at an Unprecedented Rate,” Newsweek, Nov. 17, 2017; Paul Waldman, “Donald Trump Has Assembled the Worst Cabinet in American History,” The Plum Line (blog), Washington Post, Jan. 19, 2017; Travis Waldron and Daniel Marans, “Donald Trump’s Cabinet Is on Track to Be the Least Experienced in Modern History,” Huffington Post, Nov. 24, 2016.
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