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“What happens now that everyone agrees nothing the president says should be believed?”
That’s the question Dahlia Lithwick & I grapple with in a new @Slate piece.
A few highlights ... /1 slate.com/news-and-polit…
“In part because he lies so fluently and easily, some people will vote based on what Trump says he’s done, & others will vote based on what he’s actually done—& the gap between the two is perilously wide.” /2 slate.com/news-and-polit…
“And when great swaths of the country have made peace with the fact that in all likelihood the president is lying anytime he says anything, it raises questions, come November, about how one is to judge Trump at the ballot box.” /3 slate.com/news-and-polit…
“When Americans can’t trust what a president says and also cannot believe what his Cabinet members say, Americans just don’t know how to hold them—but especially him—fully accountable.” /4 slate.com/news-and-polit…
“Delusional or not, presidential statements matter. Allowing them to stand unchallenged moves the goal posts for presidential norms & even for a collective sense of the law itself.” /5 slate.com/news-and-polit…
“Americans must realize: Trump is already upending democracy. He’s sidestepping the accountability on which America’s constitutional system is based. He is goading us into fighting among ourselves about what is a real crisis & what is manufactured.” / END slate.com/news-and-polit…
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