Opinion | The Real Reason Trump and Vance Hate Being Called ‘Weird’
For the first time there are facts and (in Kellyanne Conway’s notorious phrase) ‘alternative facts’. As facts become fluid they become contestable; the truth becomes (once again) something you assert, not something you prove. It used to be a peculiar characteristic of totalitarian regimes that they made the facts fit their purposes; now it seems th... See more
Diana M. Smith • Putting an end to political nonsense
The whole right-wing trend is people who want to look upstanding while they go home and do as much weird stuff as they can get away with.”17
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That growing alienation is a key point. This is not just about “bad” people. It is about how the death of truth, and, therefore trust, has caused so many “normal” people to be derailed into acting badly by predators or by people who have themselves been deluded. And it’s about the new tools that technology has given them to spread distrust.