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Here 👇 we have Trump again doing what @Dahlialithwick & I warned about yesterday: denying reality, & conjuring his own unreality.
It's an escalation in the nature & danger of Trump's lies.
Some key points below from our @Slate piece. /1
Here 👇 we have Trump again doing what @Dahlialithwick & I warned about yesterday: denying reality, & conjuring his own unreality.
It's an escalation in the nature & danger of Trump's lies.
Some key points below from our @Slate piece. /1
"Almost every Trumpian fictionalized tour de force starts with a false claim—also known as a lie—that is readily disproven or even obviously wrong to the naked eye, & then subverts it." /2 slate.com/news-and-polit…
"Casual lies alone are for amateurs; the real authoritarian move is to construct an entire false reality—an unreality—around those lies. That’s what we’re now seeing from Trump & his loyalists." /3 slate.com/news-and-polit…
"We don’t even need to await the era of easily created deepfakes, in which altered images foster fakes that look as real as reality. Donald Trump builds deepfakes in the mind; &, for some audiences, they prove just as durable." /4 slate.com/news-and-polit…
"As Trump increasingly concocts his own unreality, he seeks to banish the unwanted intrusion of actual reality. He also sends the message that none of us can trust ourselves to make judgments; his word is reality, instead." /5 slate.com/news-and-polit…
"This long into Trump’s presidency, it can become easy to dismiss the crazy little lies, but we are being trained to accept the really big ones. They’re coming at us faster than we may believe." /END slate.com/news-and-polit…
