So this is what a four year stress test of our sanity gets us.
Donald Trump broke the system of fact-checking that sought to rein in his chronic lying. He figured out that if he kept flooding the zone with lies, people would not necessarily believe him; they would cease to care.
The goal wasn’t to shape the “truth,” the goal …
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