Dismissing conservative participants in protests as duped fools or ranting ideologues who have fallen prey to fake news is a dangerous reaction that fails to recognize the essential and grassroots role they play in profoundly effective conservative messaging that continues to outfox progressive information campaigns. This article uses the collective action against Covid-19 stay-at-home orders and mask requirements as an example of the broader arguments in the book, The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives (Harvard University Press, 2019).

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“给我自由或给我Covid-19”：反封锁抗议者从来不是特朗普的up

将抗议活动中的保守派参与者当成愚蠢的傻瓜或煽动思想家的人，因为他们是假新闻的牺牲品，这是一种危险的反应，无法认识到他们在极为有效的保守派信息中所扮演的重要和基层角色，这些信息继续超越进步的信息运动。本文以针对Covid-19在家中的订单和口罩要求的集体行动为例，该书更广泛地论证了《革命不是：数字行动主义如何有利于保守主义者》（哈佛大学出版社，2019年）。