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How the Trump Administration Hacked Our Ignorance
David French explains on “The Opinions” why he believes a key secret to the Trump administration lies in its capacity to take advantage of “civic ignorance.”
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I actually assume one of many precise secrets and techniques of the Trump administration is that they’ve very cynically hacked civic ignorance. They understand how little consideration most People pay to political information. If they will get on the market with a top-line message very aggressively straight away, they will set the phrases of the talk, whatever the underlying reality of the matter. They are saying issues the entire time which can be simply designed to get them via the following information hour or the following information day, with excessive confidence that each one of this simply fades away. You actually start to see how a lot the American system has trusted the respect system. It has depended, to some extent, on politicians agreeing to behave with at the least a point of reality and honor, as a result of the general public is not going to bear in mind sufficient of the details on the bottom to have the ability to maintain politicians to account when they’re systematically dishonest.

January 12, 2026
