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Right Wing Round-Up: A Perfect Storm Of Conspiracy Theories

RWW Round Up
Briefing
by
Kyle Mantyla
  • Tara Isabella Burton @ Vox(link is external): Understanding the fake historian behind America’s religious right.
  • Zack Ford @ Think Progress(link is external): Anti-LGBTQ hate group orchestrates client business practices to win cases.
  • Eric Boehlert @ Shareblue(link is external): Trump only tweets about school shooting after being brutally shamed by the press.
  • David Edwards @ Raw Story(link is external): GOP Senate candidate flips out over ‘women’s rights’: ‘I want to come home to a cooked dinner every night’.
  • Matthew Sheffield @ Salon(link is external): A perfect “storm:” The far right’s latest pro-Trump conspiracy theory explains everything.
On the Watchlist
David Barton

David Barton

Despite having obtained only a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oral Roberts University in the 1970s, David Barton now routinely bills himself as “America’s premier historian” and has established a reputation as the Religious Right’s go-to “expert” for making the case that the Founding Fathers intended to establish America to be a Christian nation that operates according to the laws of God as set out in the Bible.