There is always a danger that if a weapon is in the arsenal, it will be deployed. If the leader of a country is reckless or addled, then all bets are off.
When looking at the historical record of how Americans used information over the past two hundred years, the area in which they most did not use hard facts involved elections.
Most people probably have a sense of how the ancient games formed a template for the modern Olympics, but when you dig into the detail of the ancient sources you start to see that things are not so simple.
The US is not facing a ‘Weimar Moment’ as the Germans did when they first elected Hitler, but the comparisons between the Fuhrer and Trump warrant thought.
Nostalgia often arises out of a real experience of loss. It needs to be addressed and redirected, not ridiculed or denounced. And that applies to the nostalgia that motivates a considerable number of Trump supporters.
