This post originally appeared at Smoking Politics.
We often focus, and frankly understandably so, on the big deceptions the Right plays because it's hard not to notice the impact of climate change denial.
But those big deceptions are really, in some ways, a thousand small deceptions carried out all day every day, for weeks and months and years. Pay close attention to, or perhaps believe, all these smaller deceptions and next thing you know, Michelle Bachman starts making sense.