By Reed RichardsonDec 16th, 2020, 9:14 pm
CNN’s
Anderson Cooper called out the Republican Party’s vicious cycle of disinformation about the 2020 election, one that amplifies conspiracy theories pushed by
Donald Trump and his legal team only to then cite the MAGA crowd’s blind acceptance of these false claims as justification for discussing them further.
In his opening segment on Wednesday night titled “Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone,” Cooper explored how the Congressional GOP has mostly become willing enablers of Trump’s propaganda campaign to undermine the integrity of an election he lost by seven million votes and 74 electors.
He began by highlighting a disturbing story about a former Houston police captain, who ran an air conditioning repairman off the road and held him at gunpoint because of his delusional belief that the man was carrying 750,000 fraudulent ballots in his work truck. The former policeman, who has now been charged with aggravated assault with