Why the conspiracy theories about Oregon’s forest fires?

The ugliness is a symptom of a deeper unraveling. 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Partly that’s because conspiracy theories have whipped about even faster than the fires, spreading a dangerous hysteria about the fires resulting from arson by antifa or Black Lives Matter protesters. As a result, alarmed citizens here in Oregon set up armed roadblocks on public roads to stop traffic and look for arsonists and looters. Vigilantes pursued a couple of photographers on the theory that they were setting fires. And these conspiracy theories have been conjured even by the Republican candidate for attorney general. So that’s [my column topic for today.](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRhSNygP0ToaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8wOS8xOS9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRheS93aWxkZmlyZXMtdW5pdGVkLXN0YXRlcy5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTQ1JmVtYz1lZGl0X25rXzIwMjAwOTE5Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTIyMzQ5Jm5sPW5pY2hvbGFzLWtyaXN0b2YmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTM4NTU0JnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0QgoAHaBXZl_9iTz6Uht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) I worry that this ugliness is a symptom of a deeper unraveling in America — and a warning of what may lie ahead if there’s a close election. Brace yourself. But first, [read the colu](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRhSNygP0ToaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8wOS8xOS9vcGluaW9uL3N1bmRheS93aWxkZmlyZXMtdW5pdGVkLXN0YXRlcy5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTQ1JmVtYz1lZGl0X25rXzIwMjAwOTE5Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTIyMzQ5Jm5sPW5pY2hvbGFzLWtyaXN0b2YmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTM4NTU0JnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0QgoAHaBXZl_9iTz6Uht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~)[mn](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRhSNygP0TpaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aWltZXMuY29tLzIwMjAvMDkvMTkvb3Bpbmlvbi9zdW5kYXkvd2lsZGZpcmVzLXVuaXRlZC1zdGF0ZXMuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIwMDkxOSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0yMjM0OSZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0zODU1NCZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKAB2gV2Zf_Yk8-lIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA). Ruth Bader Ginsburg, R.I.P. When Ruth Bader Ginsburg graduated from Harvard and Columbia law schools, no law firm would hire her because she was female. In retrospect, perhaps that was a good thing: She became a professor and reshaped American law on gender equality in ways that made this a fairer and better country. She was for gender equality what Thurgood Marshall was for racial equality, and she was also a powerful advocate for curbing money in politics and for fair elections. 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(He says this is different from 2016 because the Senate and White House are now held by the same party, but this wasn’t an element of his thinking in 2016.) The outcome will depend on a handful of G.O.P. senators, probably after the November election, perhaps after some like Susan Collins have been defeated for re-election. I think of McConnell as the opposite of Ginsburg. She was a principled visionary devoted to helping achieve justice for the voiceless and disadvantaged; he is an unprincipled pragmatist devoted to helping the rich get richer. If “Ginsburg” has an antonym, it is “McConnell.” R.I.P., R.B.G. “Defund the Police” Was a Flop The Democratic Party and progressives sometimes are surprisingly ineffective in reaching wavering voters. In retrospect, the impeachment drive last winter didn’t hurt President Trump and may have helped him. And the “Defund the Police” movement raised an important issue — the need to invest in social services rather than just law enforcement — but the slogan backfired. There’s some evidence it may be one reason Joe Biden isn’t doing as well as he had hoped with Latino voters. My colleague David Leonhardt [notes](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRhSNygP0T4aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8wOS8xOC9icmllZmluZy9qb2UtYmlkZW4tY2RjLWFteS1kb3JyaXMteW91ci1mcmlkYXktYnJpZWZpbmcuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIwMDkxOSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0yMjM0OSZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0zODU1NCZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKAB2gV2Zf_Yk8-lIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) that in a recent poll in four battleground states, not only Hispanic and white voters but also Black voters opposed defunding the police (fewer than one-third of Black voters supported defunding the police.). Looking back, the “Defund the Police” effort simply gave ammunition to Trump and to Republican Senate candidates. 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Bush awarded him a Presidential Medal of Freedom. I know him a bit. Rusesabagina criticized Rwanda’s president, Paul Kagame, which infuriated Kagame. Now Rwanda has kidnapped Paul in Dubai and brought him home to face criminal charges that are probably trumped up. I worry that he will be tortured into a confession, and he certainly won’t get a fair trial. It’s a sad window into Rwanda’s worst side: This is a country that under Kagame has done very well in many ways, yet remains deeply repressive and sometimes brutal. What I’m Reading Bob Woodward’s new book, [“Rage,”](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRhSNygP0TgaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ltb25hbmRzY2h1c3Rlci5jb20vYm9va3MvUmFnZS9Cb2ItV29vZHdhcmQvOTc4MTk4MjEzMTczOT9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIwMDkxOSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0yMjM0OSZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0zODU1NCZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKAB2gV2Zf_Yk8-lIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) has plenty of threads about the coronavirus that have drawn attention, but he also touches on the torture-murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi. The intelligence community concluded that the murder was ordered by the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, and Trump boasts to Woodward, “I saved his ass. I was able to get Congress to leave him alone.” Trump explains that the Saudis spend a lot of money in the U.S. — and it sounds as if as a result Trump gave the Saudis a pass on murdering a Washington Post columnist. 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It’s very clear what the problem is: Dry forests exacerbated by climate change. And, yes, Trump is correct that forest management has been poor, but note that this is mostly federal land that Trump oversees and that fire management is expensive and complicated. We should have more controlled burns, but these periodically slip out of control. And scientists say that logging can reduce risks or elevate them: Oregon’s Tillamook Burn fire was the result of logging. What isn’t debatable is that warmer temperatures raise the risks of fires and cause more megafires. So it’s so dispiriting, as I sit here on the family farm, to see how the fires functioned not as a wake-up call to a legitimate risk but rather as a source of hysteria. If fires can do that, think what a close election will do in November. 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