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Republicans have peddled conspiracy theories and disinformation for decades to squash reform, push racist policies, and start illegal wars. They went unchallenged by a media that legitimized their lies.

That they now exist in their own alternate reality is unsurprising.
What’s really shocking is all these people who enabled and empowered that disinformation, who kept booking Republicans on their shows and gifting them legitimacy, are now so surprised that we’ve gotten here. The denial of culpability is just disturbing.
If we’re ever going to get better and escape this nightmarish crisis, we’re going to have to take a long and critical look at how we got here. Our media enabled this stuff for decades and the clubby, it’s-all-a-game mentality gave birth to this mess.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Trump is a symptom, he isn’t the disease. And any attempt to explain this moment that doesn’t involve a real and probing examination of how our systems are inherently flawed simply isn’t going to work.
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