Who Says Disinformation Is Such a Bad Thing?

I just listened to part of an interview on NPR with a woman named Barbara McQuade who is promoting a book she just published about disinformation and how it seems to be leading the country to anarchy, political turmoil or worse. McQuade a former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan but stepped down when Trump took over in 2017.

She now teaches law at the University of Michigan Law School and claims to be an expert in issues relating to national security and worked on some cases involving potential terrorist threats.

Basically, this book is another attempt to line up behind all the liberal pundits who can’t decide whether Trump is a Fascist, an authoritarian, a promoter of a radical populist agenda, or a combination of all three.

What bothers her most of all is the extent to which the ‘disinformation’ pushed across the internet by the radical Right is not only believed by lots of people, but the belief then takes the form of active physical threats and assaults, viz., January 6th, the plan to kidnap Governor Whitmer or the invasion into the home of Nancy Pelosi and the attack on her husband’s head.

When Obama was President, you could walk into any bookstore and would find yourself looking at a display of books which basically portrayed Barack as a threat to the Constitution, a…