"If there is one industry that has increased its productivity in recent years, it is the manufacture and marketing of conspiracies. Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum brilliantly analyze how this happened and why it is a problem for our democracy—and also our capacity to build and sustain community. A Lot of People Are Saying offers a bracing diagnosis and thoughtful remedies. It's time, they insist, to speak truth to conspiracy."—E. J. Dionne Jr., coauthor of One Nation After Trump "This is a groundbreaking book that should define the current era of presidential malfeasance. With rigorous argumentation and excellent examples, it shows why Trump's words, as well as his actions, threaten American democracy."—Corey Brettschneider, author of The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents"In A Lot of People Are Saying, Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum, two first-rate democratic theorists, argue that 'conspiracy thinking,' long a staple of American political discourse, has risen to new heights with the ascendancy of Donald Trump, endangering the pluralism at the heart of liberal democracy. Their book comes none too soon, and I highly recommend it."—Jeffrey C. Isaac, author of #AgainstTrump: Notes from Year One"Muirhead and Rosenblum have written the defining account of the stakes in the battle over misinformation and fake news in Western democracies. 'The new conspiracism' they identify does not simply distract and mislead us. As they convincingly argue, this style of discourse undermines the legitimacy of democratic government, the institutions we depend on to create knowledge about the world, and ultimately our shared understanding of reality itself. We ignore their warnings at our peril."—Brendan Nyhan, University of Michigan