How Trump Uses Confirmation Bias & Declinism to Gain A Cultlike Following - Pod Save America

[ihaveaquestion]

May 5, 2024 Offline with Jon Favreau
We all have a caveman brain—at least when it comes to navigating the internet. Amanda Montell, author of the new book The Age of Magical Overthinking, joins Offline to explain how the “cognitive biases” that we developed to make snap decisions in prehistoric times aren’t well suited to handle the volume and pace of the information era. She and Jon talk about biases like the halo effect, zero-sum biases, and declinism, and identify how these biases have supercharged celebrity fandom, influenced our news media, and made Democrats nostalgic for the George W. Bush era.

CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
1:35 - Cognitive Bias
6:10 - Taylor Swift cult
12:07 - Trump cult
32:03 - Information overload

[Permanut]

1. Haven't looked at this yet, but I'm going in with a bias..

This democrat will never be nostalgic for an era when W ignored the August 6th, 2001 PBM, Presidential Briefing Memo, stating that Osama Bin Laden was determined to strike in the United States.

[burrowowl]

2. Worth a listen

[Esra Star]

3. Very listenable interview

which I found to be very engaging and thought provoking.