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This gives the crisis its own peculiar awfulness: the overlay of bad faith, cynical spin, and serial deception. Who do we believe? What do we believe? Who is telling us the truth and who is shoveling fabulist bullshit?

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But what did we expect? We had taken a long vacation from truth because we could afford to...

So we preferred tribal narratives, turned on Fox news, and elevated a serial con man to the highest position of honor in our country, because we wanted to play at self-destruction.
Burn it all down. Own the libs. Dismantle the deep state. Mock civility, and wink at lies.

America was great, its swagger was back, and facts, expertise, competence, and norms all seemed so last decade.

And then someone in Wuhan got sick.
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