Explanations for historical failures depend strongly on political attitude

Evidence

It is striking, however, that other possible explanations are put forward for all three examples and that the assessment depends strongly on one’s own political attitude. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 188

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Political opponents invented the failures attributed to nineteenth-century liberalism — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 447; Political losing raises a group’s propensity for conspiratorial reasoning rather than causing it — Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent, American Conspiracy Theories, 756

Related

• Political opponents invented the failures attributed to nineteenth-century liberalism (similarity 0.86)
• Political losing raises a group’s propensity for conspiratorial reasoning rather than causing it (similarity 0.79)