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Along the way, they drag their supporters down to their level, obliging them to twist the truth and contort their morals to defend the indefensible.
Doubt everything, the Republicans are saying, except for the word of Trump. What he says is always true, even if he contradicts himself tomorrow, as he so often does. This isn’t the position of a political party, but that of a cult of fanatics bowing down to a false idol.
Obscuring the truth is one objective, but the larger goal is to create so much doubt and hostility that people become exhausted and stick to one or two news sources that make them feel comfortable.
But even if you can fool some of the people all of the time, the relentless moving of the goalposts has to be wearing thin.
That nearly everyone around Trump turns out to be a criminal is a coincidence nearly on the scale of how many of their crimes come back to Russian connections
“Facts are stubborn things,” wrote John Adams. And we must be no less stubborn in defending those facts. If Trump is so infallible, he and his defenders should have no qualms about having him deliver the truth not on Twitter, not at a rally, but under oath.
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