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'Do Your Own Research': How the Rabbit Hole Actually Works

One thing you learn pretty quickly is that extremism rarely starts with someone saying: “Join my extremist movement.”

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Mar 22, 2026
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Trygve Olson is a strategist, pro-democracy fighter and a founding Lincoln Project advisor. Subscribe to his Searching for Hope Substack.

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If you spend any time in American politics right now, you’ve heard the phrase:

“Do your own research.”

On the surface, that sounds like a healthy instinct. Democracies work best when citizens …

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