"In a totalitarian regime, state-controlled media normalizes the leader's constantly changing stories, which serves to further obliterate any notion of a shared truth. Trump's favorite news outlets similarly normalize his changing stories, thereby undermining factuality. When people can no longer sort out what is factual and what was invented, they conclude that the truth is unknowable. It's the ultimate in relativism and skepticism. Without facts and a shared reality, jury verdicts have no meaning, and the results of law enforcement investigations are easily manipulated or even dismissed."
Teri Kanefield at Slate explains how pro-Trump Americans are "immune to the truth."
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