Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article:  Heer, Jeet (June 28, 2016), Conservatives Have Groomed the Perfect Suckers for Trump’s Epic Scam, New Republic, Retrieved on 2016-07-08
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    08 JUL 2016

     Exploiting Conservative Cognitive Bias

    Conservative ideology, as Perlstein persuasively argues, is particularly vulnerable to grifters because of its faith in the goodness of business and its concomitant hostility toward regulation—which makes it easy for true believers to buy into the notion that some modern Edison has a miraculous new invention that the Washington elite is conniving to suppress. In Perlstein’s words, “The strategic alliance of snake-oil vendors and conservative true believers points up evidence of another succes...
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