Donald Moynihan

Uh, we have polling from last year that showed 40% of Trump followers, uh, uh, know about QAnon, and three out of 10 believe in it, so that's a pretty big constituency that, you know, they seem to be appealing to.

The Washington Post's Donald Moynihan wrote that, "The allegations were not about the facts.

The goal was to portray Jackson and, by extension, Democrats as players in the QAnon narrative that public institutions are overrun with child predators.

The attacks also represented a test of what conservatives would accept.

I said, "Judge, Judge, you're gonna need to say that yourself.

I'm not really sure that I can go back and, you know, and repeat your words." But moving, moving forward, and this is, I have a, a real quote here for you that I wanna discuss.

Earlier this week, um, Donald Moynihan, writing in the Washington Post, said the following, and I'm quoting it, "The damage of the QAnon conspiracy claims will spread in the body politic until conservatives find the courage to push back.

It can't happen too soon.

Political scientists have a name for this phenomenon.

There's two political scientists or analysts, Pamela Hurd and Donald Moynihan, and they wrote a whole book on this and it's called Administrative Burden.

And it talks about how governments ration benefits through paperwork instead of through law, right? So here's that like technicality of we're not taking away benefits.

We're not changing eligibility.

Yes.

So this schematic comes from two amazing scholars, Don Moynihan and Pamela Herd, and they're scholars of public administration.

And so there's learning costs.

What is out there? What do I have to do? There are the actual costs of getting something, so the paperwork costs, right, of applying or going and standing in line to vote, that kind of thing.

Yes.

So this schematic comes from two amazing scholars, Don Moynihan and Pamela Herd.

And they're scholars of public administration.

And so there's learning costs.

But it will also make it really difficult to build policy on those data.

And I think this is where we, I keep thinking about Pam Heard and Don Moynihan's book, Administrative Policymaking by Other Means.

which is when you can't get what you want through Congress, you find other ways of making it happen through, you know, this micromanagement of policy.

And I think that that's part of what we're seeing, you know, which is that you don't like the Civil Rights Acts.