Republican conspiracy theories about the California elections suffer from one fatal flaw - Facebook
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Republican election conspiracy theories in California collapse under their own logic — a textbook case of why unfalsifiable claims and self-defeating reasoning expose motivated reasoning over truth-seeking.
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Theory Briefing
- Republican conspiracy theories about California elections contain a built-in logical flaw that undermines their own premise.
- If Democratic schemers truly controlled the process, the theories argue, they would have ensured far cleaner, less detectable outcomes.
- This self-defeating reasoning is a classic marker of motivated reasoning — beliefs shaped by desired conclusions rather than evidence.