Analysis | It’s in keeping with the right’s new approach to constructing reality: Pull information out of context and frame it as desired, Philip Bump writes.
. But Elon Musk had a big pile of Legos and he opened up the ol’ “Woke Mind Virus Constructor” app.
The entire point is that — given enough pieces of information, a motivated builder and a credulous audience — you can make whatever argument you want. Take a cache of emails from a senior official with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and you can create a conspiracy theory that leads to a guy at a D.C. pizza joint. Take 44,000 hours of footage from the Capitol and who knows what you can cobble together.To extend the Lego analogy, the most important factor is the app you’re choosing. Right-wing voices, including Carlson, criticized the House select committee for offering a motivated presentation of the riot, with some justification. Imagine, though, if then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had in 2021 given the Capitol riot footage to Rachel Maddow’s team to evaluate.
There is an additional irony here. The reason that the riot occurred in the first place was that Donald Trump cherry-picked information and rhetoric about the 2020to bolster an argument that it had been stolen from him — an obviously false assertion. In other words, the attack on the Capitol that threatened the lives of legislators like McCarthy was heavily dependent on bad-faith assessments of a big pool of numbers and anecdotes.
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