the groundwork for this bullshit was laid back in 2016 - Diane Rehm show, Scottie Nell

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2. So, facts are simply what the hearer chooses to believe.

The "consensus reality" of the propagandists is "truth." Evidence that can be examined and independently judged is completely unnecessary. You anti-Trump people have the your authorities and we have our "authorities." Ours contradict yours, so yours are wrong -- they are just trying to dupe us. We won't be fooled. We know better.

It's so scary. A world in which people -- perhaps even a majority -- believe whatever they are told by propagandists as firmly as others believe the conclusions they have reached based on repeatable studies and analyses that have stood up to critical examination over time.