Martin Longman makes the case that perhaps the worst part of Trump's win was that he recast the GOP in his image. Not the racism and naked greed, so much. That was always there. It was Trump's rampant and really unique disregard for objective reality. I suppose so, but that was certainly true of the Bush Administration, too. The Bushies felt they could bend reality to their will, whereas Trump's version is even less tethered to reality, but the epistemological closure was there decades ago. (And it does exist in quarters of the left, as well.)
All politicians hedge the truth, but the party of Nixon/Watergate; Reagan and Bush/Iran Contra, Bush/WMD and Trump/gestures wildly at everything is less a sharp break than a steady decline.
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