Burn the Constitution Once Again ^76.2%

Jacobin - By Seth Ackerman - 7/4/2026, 8:50 AM

Negativity Bias 72.1% - Framing Effect 39.8% - Quote-first Misdirection 39.8%

In a 1988 memoir recounting his thirty-year tenure as chief Washington correspondent of the Sunday Times, the British journalist Henry Brandon recalled the flicker of disquiet he felt in 1964 as he watched the chaos and extremism of Barry Goldwater’s hard-right presidential campaign. He had wondered, at the time, if it was an omen of... more