Saturday, May 21, 2016

Donald Trump gets away with every lie: Ronald Reagan, Fox News and how the right slowly gutted the truth

Donald Trump gets away with every lie: Ronald Reagan, Fox News and how the right slowly gutted the truth

"Trying to knock down Trump’s lies one at a time is a fool’s errand. It’s like trying to cut the head off of the hydra; for every lie you chop down, two new ones take its place. You have to step back and grasp the full magnitude of his lying, how he kneads together a whole multitude of lies into a single narrative, one which he then quickly casts off the moment it becomes advantageous to abandon it in favor of something else—possibly even the exact opposite of what he had been arguing the moment before. Perhaps the best way to understand him is simply as a salesman. There are no objective facts where he comes from, just selling points."

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