'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.”
Trygve Olson is a strategist, pro-democracy fighter and a founding Lincoln Project advisor. Subscribe to his Searching for Hope Substack.
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 …





