Repressed historical truths resurface distorted in conspiratorial politics

Evidence

But if those truths are stuffed back away, they will keep haunting us and keep reemerging in the Mirror World in distorted, twisted form. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 901

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to psychoanalytic repression-mechanism literature Klein has been building throughout — the Mirror World as the return of the repressed in political form. — connects to: The Deep State term stretched to explain away any inconvenient event — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 934; Conspiracy theories reconcile Sinhalese superiority claims with humiliating historical defeats — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 203; Contemporary political crises stem from denial of systemic truths more than ignorance — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 70 (+5 more)