Jennifer Rubin, writing in the Washington Post, points to what others have called our “epistemic crisis”:
The “Big Lie” to which [Fiona] Hill refers – that the 2020 election was stolen through rampant voter fraud – is one of many in the post-truth world that right-wingers have propagated to gin up their base and promote a sense of panic and grievance. In this world, masks don’t work and Ukraine has the DNC server. White evangelicals tell their flocks there is a war on Christians. Radio talk-show hosts tell us there are terrorists among refugees fleeing violence in Central America. There is a whole industry – extending to issue-oriented advocacy groups and think tanks – designed to con the mob and infuriate them.
If we can’t find a way back to the foundational principle that there is in fact (no pun intended) a set of realities that we must try as best we can to truthfully describe, then we are indeed in a deep and fearsome hole .
Opinion | We must end the post-truth society – The Washington Post
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