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Rochester political scientist Scott Tyson studies how conspiracies and radicalization have entered the American mainstream, and what to do about it.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

If your idea of conspiracy theories used to entail aliens, UFOs, governmental cover-ups at Roswell Air Force base, and the melody of The X-Files<\/em><\/a>\u2014you were not alone. That was, indeed, the classic notion, says Scott Tyson<\/a>, an assistant professor of political science at the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But over the course of the last five years, he noticed a watershed. For starters, the term \u201ctheory\u201d no longer applied to the convoluted ideas spouted by today\u2019s conspiracist groups such as QAnon, the Proud Boys, and the Oath Keepers, all of whom Tyson calls largely \u201ctheoryless.\u201d<\/p>\n

For example, Tyson, a game theorist whose research focuses on authoritarian politics, conspiracies, and radicalization, points out that those who believe erroneously that former President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cvictory was stolen,\u201d usually do not believe that votes cast on that same ballot for successful Republican congressional candidates have been tampered with.<\/p>\n

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In the news<\/h3>\n

Scott Tyson and coauthor Todd Lehmann argue that radicalization has become increasingly common and offer ideas on what to do about it in Political Violence at a Glance<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThere is no elaborate theory behind the assertion that the last election was rigged. It\u2019s just a bunch of assertions that don’t really fit together in a cohesive story,\u201d says Tyson.<\/p>\n

Instead, he prefers the term \u201cconspiracism\u201d to describe what he sees as the current stream of misinformation.<\/p>\n

According to Tyson, it\u2019s this growing belief in conspiracist narratives that has led to the increased radicalization of average Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn order for people to commit violent acts you have to make it seem as if there\u2019s some greater cause,\u201d says Tyson. You have to convince people that the political opposition is \u201cin cahoots as part of some crazy cabal, and that the greater cause is to overturn that cabal,\u201d which justifies extreme actions, including violence and breaking the law.<\/p>\n

In a recent study, <\/strong>\u201cSowing the Seeds: Radicalization as a Political Tool<\/strong>\u201d <\/strong>published in the American Journal of Political Science<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, <\/em>Tyson\u2014together with University of Michigan coauthor Todd Lehmann<\/a>\u2014looks at two common policy interventions\u2014economic and psychological\u2014designed to counter the growing radicalization among the US population. The duo finds that improving economic conditions reduces both radicalization efforts and dissent. However, the duo also finds that trying to render people psychologically less susceptible to radicalization can backfire and instead increase the efforts by radical leaders to influence and radicalize more followers.<\/p>\n

While radical assertions of a \u201cdeep state\u201d and \u201cstolen elections\u201d have long bubbled quietly underneath public discourse, Tyson says during the last five years, the ideas have moved into the mainstream discourse. That shift\u2014from fringe to center stage\u2014Tyson argues, happened during the Trump presidency.<\/p>\n

The January 6 storming of the US Capitol, Tyson says, was driven by such conspiratorial misinformation, as hundreds of American citizens attacked the seat of American democracy in order to reverse what they were led falsely to believe was an \u201cundemocratic election\u201d\u2014despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.<\/p>\n

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Q&A with Scott Tyson<\/strong><\/h3>\n

What\u2019s the nutshell definition of \u201cradicalization\u201d?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Tyson:<\/strong> \u201cRadicalization\u201d is used interchangeably with \u201cindoctrination.\u201d Essentially, it\u2019s creating self-motivation among people to do certain things. You would call someone radicalized when those things that you would normally have to motivate someone to do\u2014you don\u2019t have to do anymore because they\u2019ve become self-motivated. That\u2019s where conspiracism comes in\u2014it restructures the way that people perceive the social world around them. Radicalization involves an element of extremism and is fundamentally a political thought with an ecosystem to it: there needs to be a political group, or a set of political leaders who are trying to restructure people\u2019s beliefs or their values in such a way that it helps their own political goals or causes.<\/p>\n

How can radicalization be countered?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Tyson: <\/strong>The way to combat it is not to hope for the easy solution. It\u2019s a false idea that we can just take out the leaders and it\u2019ll all go away, akin to simply cutting off the head off the snake. That doesn\u2019t actually work. You have to go from the bottom up to start trying to siphon off radicalized people, and treat the organization more as a terrorist group, in terms of any hearts and minds policies.<\/p>\n

Does leadership \u201cdecapitation\u201d work against a radical group such as QAnon?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Tyson: <\/strong>We looked in our research at what happens when you threaten leadership decapitation and found that you actually provide an incentive for leaders to increase their efforts to radicalize others. The reason is very simple: if we think of radicalized people as having the self-motivation to do things against the government\u2014whether it’s protests, attacks, or to bomb things\u2014if more people become radicalized the actual leaders are less important in these kinds of antigovernment actions. Our theory suggests that leaders are less important in the actual production of antigovernment actions, so that the government is essentially forced to divert attention from the leaders and toward these other threats. The leaders intentionally take away from their own control.<\/p>\n

Why were conspiracies able to enter the American mainstream so pervasively? <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Tyson: <\/strong>Trump was incredibly important in giving a megaphone to conspiracists who had been on the fringe beforehand until he became a political force and essentially weaponized a lot of those ideas. When Trump unleashed all these conspiracies on the public\u2014many people didn\u2019t know that they were really fringe ideas. One other reason they were able to spread so quickly is our so-called \u201cmedia ecosystem.\u201d We have media outlets like Fox News, OAN, and Newsmax who are perfectly willing to spout conspiracies. When it all started back in 2015, the mainstream media wasn’t ready to deal with this kind of weaponization. That\u2019s why conspiracists were able to misuse the mainstream media to essentially launder their claims: the conspiracists would make a bunch of unfounded assertions and accusations, which the mainstream media would pick up in turn to report on. Part of the debunking, however, was retelling the untrue story. That way a lot of these conspiracy narratives ended up reaching a much larger audience.<\/p>\n

What role did the pandemic play in the spread of conspiracies and the radicalization of US citizens? Would this have happened without the pandemic? <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Tyson: <\/strong>QAnon was around before the pandemic, and the radicalization campaigns of far-right groups were already under way beforehand. But it certainly accelerated these efforts and made them more effective. Because of the pandemic people were more isolated, which means they were talking to fewer people, and the echo chamber became narrower. That in turn, made people more susceptible to becoming radicalized. It\u2019s very similar to how cults recruit people: they isolate them from their family and friends who are not involved in the cult. They keep new recruits in that echo chamber long enough until they\u2019ve been able to radicalize them. The number of QAnon members and radicalized people through other far-right groups today would be much, much lower if the pandemic hadn\u2019t forced us all to isolate in the way that it did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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