Stantis has Winslow, (his Dem prop-up,) mouth “…all this chaos is our fault”
While his GOP prop-up Carmen mouths “That’s because it is, WInslow.”
The GOP can’t look like they were wrong.
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Truth #1: The chaos is the point.
The first and perhaps only term of America’s 45th president started with a ludicrous claim of “alternative facts.”
It ends with a bonfire of deception that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Millions are out of jobs, out of school, at risk of losing their homes.
The broadest racial justice movement in a generation has been discounted and demonized.
All because of this, the most consistent feature of Donald Trump’s presidency: He lives in a world of alternative facts so complete, it seals him off even from the danger to the only thing he cares about—himself.
It seemed so absurd when they first rolled out the term, back in January 2017. Kellyanne Conway stood there, in front of the White House, doubling down on the outlandish claim that Trump had drawn the largest inauguration crowd ever.
The photos plainly showing otherwise. “Don’t be so overly dramatic,” she berated Chuck Todd; the White House had just been providing alternative facts.
We didn’t fully know it then, but making sense was not the goal. The Trump M.O. is not to lie convincingly.
It is, in fact, the opposite—to distort the truth so blatantly that going along requires a cultish willingness to suspend disbelief.
You are on Team Trump if you repeat his lies, no matter how implausible. And not to do so, to side with Team Reality, is the ultimate “You’re fired!” offense.
That’s why he makes such a show of punishing those who resist his gaslighting.
“The ultimate goal of this president is to get you to disbelieve what you’ve seen and what you’ve heard,” says Alexander Vindman, whom Trump had demonstratively marched out of his office after he testified in the impeachment hearings.
Stantis has Winslow, (his Dem prop-up,) mouth “…all this chaos is our fault”
While his GOP prop-up Carmen mouths “That’s because it is, WInslow.”
The GOP can’t look like they were wrong.
~
Truth #1: The chaos is the point.
The first and perhaps only term of America’s 45th president started with a ludicrous claim of “alternative facts.”
It ends with a bonfire of deception that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Millions are out of jobs, out of school, at risk of losing their homes.
The broadest racial justice movement in a generation has been discounted and demonized.
All because of this, the most consistent feature of Donald Trump’s presidency: He lives in a world of alternative facts so complete, it seals him off even from the danger to the only thing he cares about—himself.
It seemed so absurd when they first rolled out the term, back in January 2017. Kellyanne Conway stood there, in front of the White House, doubling down on the outlandish claim that Trump had drawn the largest inauguration crowd ever.
The photos plainly showing otherwise. “Don’t be so overly dramatic,” she berated Chuck Todd; the White House had just been providing alternative facts.
We didn’t fully know it then, but making sense was not the goal. The Trump M.O. is not to lie convincingly.
It is, in fact, the opposite—to distort the truth so blatantly that going along requires a cultish willingness to suspend disbelief.
You are on Team Trump if you repeat his lies, no matter how implausible. And not to do so, to side with Team Reality, is the ultimate “You’re fired!” offense.
That’s why he makes such a show of punishing those who resist his gaslighting.
“The ultimate goal of this president is to get you to disbelieve what you’ve seen and what you’ve heard,” says Alexander Vindman, whom Trump had demonstratively marched out of his office after he testified in the impeachment hearings.
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https://www.motherjones.com/media/2020/10/the-chaos-is-the-point/