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15th June 2018
04:14pm BST

Jacobson went on to describe Donald Trump as being "pickled in television," commenting on the way the media - pointing to social media and the spread of fake news in particular - has altered the decision-making process for voters, and the consequences thereof.
'The great thing we have to fear, I think, now, this is a terrible thing to say, but I think it’s other people," Jacobson said. "You can’t trust the people.
"It’s not that you can’t trust the people to get it right, it’s almost you can be certain that the people will get it wrong. They’d already done it as far as I was concerned in Brexit. And then with Trump again.
"Two such big events as that, and what did they have in common? The people given this new confidence in their own opinions, their inability to distinguish true from false."
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