Wolffe: Trump's legacy is the plague of extreme lies. Truth-based media is the vaccine

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Trump’s legacy is the plague of extreme lies. Truth-based media is the vaccine
Richard Wolffe
Guardian UK Opinion
Tue 1 Dec 2020

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/01/trumps-legacy-is-the-plague-of-extreme-lies-truth-based-media-is-the-vaccine

Excerpts:

We can’t stop the Trumpistas from Trumping. We can’t stop the rest of them from pretending like they were never big Trump fans in the first place. But we can stop them running away from the facts or their record. We can remind them how they failed to stop Trump’s corruption and this murderous pandemic.

We can stop them skewing the political spectrum so far that the Biden team tacks to center ground that is already six steps to the right. We can hold the new White House to its promises at the same time as holding the old Republican party to what used to be its principles.

But this work comes at a price. Back in the late 19th century, the French writer Gustave Le Bon wrote that “the crowd” has never rewarded the truth.

“They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them,” he wrote. “Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”

You can reward the truth if you want to. It’s one of the best ways to demolish the legacy of the last four years.

Mr. Wolffe provides a good summary of how we got in this mess, along with some suggestions on how to make it better.

Love the quote by Le Bon as it sums up how Faux News and RW talk radio managed to brainwash a sizable portion of our citizens.

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