How Rightwing Hysteria Goes Viral
From Satanic panic to critical race theory, one psychological phenomenon helps explain why the right gets so riled up so fast.
4 min readSep 21, 2021
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A year ago, almost nobody knew what critical race theory was. This arcane academic niche was the dominion of a tiny group of left-leaning legal scholars until very recently. Today, it’s practically…
