Trump’s Lies: Attempts to “Stamp Out the Very Possibility of a Shared Reality”
This is what we are up against. It’s a challenge we don’t yet seem to have an answer for as a polity:
…Trump’s willingness to keep piling the lies on top of one another long after the original foundational lies have been widely debunked, and to keep on attacking the press for not playing along with his version of reality, as if the very possibility of shared reality can be stamped out by Trumpian edict, or Trumpian Tweedict.
Here’s what is really at stake in the battle over how journalists should handle Trump’s lies:https://t.co/uyof7Hu2KI pic.twitter.com/XZnVW4uRlO
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 9, 2017
