myth

“Your management has been telling you a lie that if you work hard enough, you’ll make more money, even though you don’t control the cost of food, the marketing, your hours. This idea that you have total control over how much money you make is a myth sold to us by ownership.”

In his tenure at Fox News, Tucker Carlson was a prime disseminator of Great Replacement narratives, particularly those connecting it the next key element of 2024 gaslighting: the voter fraud myth.

For Trump, the myth of voter fraud vindicates his self-image as a defender of American democracy, who is sometimes forced to ask election officials to find him several thousand votes.

The premise is built around an urban myth that Candyman roamed the Cabrini-Green housing projects in Chicago and could be summoned by saying his name five times in front of a mirror.

Time and again, however, scientists have crunched the numbers and determined that the 27 Club has more basis in myth than in math.