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• ‟ Elections are always a Rorschach test - people look at the results and see what they want to see.

  - Anne Applebaum
  

• ‟ The behavioral scientist Karen Stenner has written very eloquently about people who have what she calls an authoritarian predisposition, a personality type that is bothered by complexity and is especially enraged by disagreement. Trump has made himself into the spokesperson for precisely these American authoritarians.

  - Anne Applebaum
  

• ‟ False stories can be promulgated more easily when the people trying to tell true stories have been discredited - or when they are battered by rubber bullets.

  - Anne Applebaum
  

• ‟ For some people, loud advocacy of Trump helps to cover up the deep doubt and even shame they feel about their support for Trump.

  - Anne Applebaum
  

• ‟ Amazingly, quite a few people, even some American conservatives, are taken in by Russian tactics.

  - Anne Applebaum
  

• ‟ Published in 1947, 'The Plague' has often been read as an allegory, a book that is really about the occupation of France, say, or the human condition. But it's also a very good book about plagues, and about how people react to them - a whole category of human behavior that we have forgotten.

  - Anne Applebaum
  

• ‟ Like SARS or Ebola, COVID-19 seems to be another disease that has jumped from the animal kingdom to the human and then traveled quickly because of trains, cars, airplanes, and people clustering in public places.

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• ‟ The Brexit campaign was transformed from a fringe eccentricity into a mass movement by a handful of people who decided to make it into an argument about identity.

  - Anne Applebaum