president gets up and says it's a hoax. he's keeping them in the dark and brainwashed whereas the republicans who are concerned by donald trump's open betrayal of the country in helsinki are seeing, okay, part of the administration is doing the right thing. maybe i can still vote republican. >> do you think they're in the dark and brainwashed? >> i think it's time for us to start thinking about some of the base being brainwashed. there's this qanon, this conspiracy theory. the conspiracy theories on the far right are growing and spreading and becoming less part of the fringe discourse and working their way into the main stream. it's becoming more of the case. and in my mind that's a piece of brainwashing. i mean we're talking about people existing in alternative information environments that have no bearing on fact or reason. and that's where some of his