Uscinski, meanwhile, is happy to name names.
Surprised, Uscinski conducted a mini-poll.
Uscinski thinks Trump uses conspiracy theory
rhetoric to keep his base engaged.
Still, Uscinski says, there's no indication yet that greater
visibility leads more people to believe.
That woman told Uscinski she was a public school teacher,“which was
sort of horrifying,” he says.
Uscinski recalls stocking up on supplies before a hurricane hit Florida in 2017,
and hearing his cashier at Target remark that Trump was controlling the storms.
In the 2014 book“American Conspiracy Theories,” Joseph Uscinski, a political scientist at the University of Miami who specializes in conspiracy theories,
along with co-author Joseph Parent, set out to quantify conspiracy theories over time.