"But as with so many other things that are plainly obvious—the size of his inauguration crowd, his loss in the popular vote, the birthplace of Barack Obama—Trump inhabits a parallel universe in which the truth is smothered by 'alternative facts.' He lives inside a fantasyland where any suggestion of personal failing is angrily denounced as 'fake news'; where old-time veracity is no match for ego-driven delusion and where pathological lying is as natural as breathing.
Vinay Menon at The Toronto Star asks, "Is this really where we are?"
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