Sarah Kendzior On The 'Normalcy Bias' That Kept Manafort Out Of Jail For Decades

By Ed Scarce — February 23, 2019
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"People have normalcy bias. They thought: 'If Manafort is really such a criminal, clearly someone would do something.' Well guess what? No one did anything and now we have a Russian asset as POTUS backed up by a transnational crime syndicate!"
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