Summary of Dan Pfeiffer's Battling the Big Lie

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#1 I have been involved in politics for more than 20 years, and I have seen first hand the battle between the Republicans and the Democrats. While America is always quite divided, that division exists because of a shared set of facts and a mutual understanding of the challenges.

#2 In 2004, Tim Johnson, a Democrat, beat Thune, a Republican, by a margin of 524 votes. Republicans were convinced that voter fraud and media bias were to blame, and they did not accept the legitimacy of the election.

#3 The first of its kind, the conservative blogosphere helped fuel the Republican campaign to remove Daschle in exchange for the Black Hills of South Dakota. The old rules didn’t apply anymore.

#4 I can’t blame this initiative for the loss of Daschle, as the Democrats were hit with a tough election in 2007. However, I was disturbed by the fact that a random conspiracy theory mentioned by a Fox doofus could get a major network to fly across the globe to confirm that conspiracy theory.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822546981

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#1

I have been involved in politics for more than 20 years, and I have seen first hand the battle between the Republicans and the Democrats. While America is always quite divided, that division exists because of a shared set of facts and a mutual understanding of the challenges.

#2

In 2004, Tim Johnson, a Democrat, beat Thune, a Republican, by a margin of 524 votes. Republicans were convinced that voter fraud and media bias were to blame, and they did not accept the legitimacy of the election.

#3

The first of its kind, the conservative blogosphere helped fuel the Republican campaign to remove Daschle in exchange for the Black Hills of South Dakota. The old rules didn’t apply anymore.

#4

I can’t blame this initiative for the loss of Daschle, as the Democrats were hit with a tough election in 2007. However, I was disturbed by the fact that a random conspiracy theory mentioned by a Fox doofus could get a major network to fly across the globe to confirm that conspiracy theory.

#5

The 2008 Obama campaign was faced with a deluge of calls asking two questions about Obama: Was he Muslim, and was it true that he was born in Kenya. The callers had heard these rumors from three sources: friends and family who listened to talk radio, friends and family who read conservative news on the internet, and forwarded emails.

#6

After Obama’s victory, it felt like we had finally cracked the code and could fight back against an emerging strain of GOP disinformation. But we were wrong. We had won the battle, but we had lost the war.

#7

The release of the birth certificate did nothing to solve the issue. The conspiracy theorists changed the terms without blinking an eye, saying that Obama was born in Kenya, and not America. This was a truly absurd claim, but media outlets addicted to celebrity gossip and conflict lapped it up.

#8

The Obama-era Republican Party’s descent into madness and Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton, the party’s most detested foe, proved that propaganda and disinformation are viable options for winning. Democrats, the press, and the public still haven’t fully comprehended the Republicans’ plague on the