Republicans' California election conspiracy theories suffer from one fatal flaw - MS NOW
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When conspiracy theories about California elections collapse under their own logic, it reveals how motivated reasoning shields believers from the one test that could falsify their claims.
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Theory Briefing
- Republican conspiracy theories about California elections fall apart because the alleged schemers produced outcomes no rational manipulator would choose.
- Falsifiability — the backbone of sound reasoning — is absent when believers ignore evidence that directly contradicts the conspiracy's internal logic.
- Motivated reasoning leads partisans to accept any result as proof of fraud, making the theory impossible to disprove by design.