Trump v. Truth

As suggested at left, of all the damage Trump has inflicted on American society, it’s possible that the greatest harm has been his bizarre, inexplicable ability to turn truth on its head.

Here’s an exercise: think back to any close election in the past, say Nixon/Kennedy or Bush/Gore, and imagine what would have happened if the ultimate loser were to have claimed that massive voter fraud was at blame, even though 60+ courts found no evidence to support that assertion.

The loser would have been ridiculed as a crackpot and “cancelled” as a credible figure.  At a very minimum, he wouldn’t have a cult following consisting of tens of millions of hateful morons.

As I’ve said elsewhere, this strange phenomenon in the early 21st Century may go away like the witch trials of the later 17th Century, i.e., disappear virtually without a trace.  A few months in the horrors of Salem, the entire set of events simply stopped, seemingly without reason or cause, and a year later, many of the town’s people doubted that it even happened.