In “Collusion vs. Stop the Steal” (Business World, Nov. 25), Holman Jenkins , Jr., correctly notes the resemblance between the 2016 Russia-collusion theory and the 2020 election-denial myth. He says, however, that “one difference” between the two is the “broad, voluntary effort by the establishment, including the news media,” to propagate the theory that the 2016 election had been stolen by Russia for Donald Trump. Apparently, he doesn’t believe there was a similar effort on the other side in 2020. To the contrary, the reason millions of Americans falsely believe that the 2020 election was stolen is that they were led to believe this by a concerted effort on the part of many in conservative media, at least some of whom knew better.

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Persons: Holman Jenkins , Jr, Donald Trump Locations: Russia