MAGA's Talarico Conspiracy Theory Has No 'Off' Switch

Plenty of people on social media didn’t think it was Talarico’s job to protect his opponents from looking foolish.

Vice President Vance went back to his native Ohio last week to hold a rally and cast his early ballot in what have been — at least to many in the national political press — surprisingly difficult Senate and gubernatorial races for his party. They shouldn’t be so surprised.

In 2010, the libertarian writer Julian Sanchez accused the American conservative movement of "epistemic closure." The right had spent decades building an alternative media ecosystem, and Sanchez was concerned about the health of that ecosystem.