The same is true on the left. Democrats were justifiably aghast at polling after the 2020 election showing that a huge chunk of Republicans believed Trump’s big lie that President Biden’s election was illegitimate. But a 2018 YouGov poll revealed that two out of three Democrats believed Russia actually changed the vote tallies of the 2016 election, a baseless conspiracy theory. Similarly, while they were right to assail Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, some liberals—including some well-educated ones—were hoping for a similar scenario after 2016. They were counting on an FBI
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