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Why Trump wants to disempower
institutions that protect the truth

Donald Trump is hardly the first president to lie. But what distinguishes Trump from previous presidential fibsters are his meta-lies. These claim that the very institutions empowered in a democracy to expose lies are themselves corrupt, dishonest and lying. In spreading his meta-lies, Trump poisons the well of democratic discourse. ...

These institutions – the university, the judiciary and the free press – subject the statements of politicians to truth-testing. In this way, citizens can make informed choices at the polls. Without these institutions – and, just as crucially, without belief in their integrity – democratic self-governance would be impossible. ...

This reckless disregard of reality reveals an unusual quality to Trump’s lying. Other presidents lied to deceive their opponents. Not so Trump. Trump does not even make the pretense of trying to hoodwink his opponents. Instead, he deceives his supporters. By lying about the neutrality and integrity of our truth-defending institutions, he consolidates his power by depriving his supporters of tools that might authorize an informed, critical assessment of his performance. ...

Trump’s radical strategy would not be possible in a less fractured media environment and without Trump’s minions of mendacity at Breitbart and Fox News. But the fact that Trump is aided and abetted in his meta-lies only makes them all the more efficacious – and dangerous.

Why Trump wants to disempower institutions that protect the truth | Lawrence Douglas

 

#FakeNews:

 

It wouldn't have been possible without liberals asserting, for years on end, personal truth overrides objective truth.

The "minions" just played the game better. They own talk radio and they dominate bias on the internet.

To win now, democrats may have to do something radical: gear back its social agenda. That'll risk being uncool though.

 

Soon to be

They must not have been reading the King Donald Version of their Bible.

 

I can honestly say that it would be wrong for the Dems to do the same thing. It's totally wrong.

 

Which is precisely why these cretins have now been given carte blanche by Trump to go merrily about their business.

 

You aren't nearly the arbiter of coolness and deep thinking you like present yourself as being. Sorry to break it to you.

 

Pennsylvania senator to Trump: Come after me, you 's***-gibbon'

 

Alma, I'm sorry, that was full of shit, too. If "treat others as equals and as you would wish to be treated" is too much for white Americans to bear, then fuck them (us).

 

The quote in whole is even better:

"Why don't you try to destroy my career you fascist, loofa-faced, shit-gibbon!"

Loofa-faced!!!

 

It's impossible to prove a hypothetical. He didn't die in 2008, so why you think you know what might have happened, there is no way to even remotely prove it would have. He did die in 2016, and we all know what did happen.

Shit like this is why they should be appointed for 20-year terms, with the caveat that when one dies or retires hearings for the successor MUST be held within 30 days and an up-or-down vote within 40.

 

Oh, it's all academic. Odds are very good that the first Supreme Court ruling that goes against Trump he'll defy. GOP Congress will back his play, and there will be no reason for any American to obey a federal court order ever again.