Cynical Publius is not cynical enough if he or she thinks confronting Democrats with facts will have any salutary effect at all. From Cynical Publius at amgreatness.com:
The left claimed Trump was the threat—but the real danger was the conspiracy of lies, leaks, and lawfare that hijacked democracy and undermined our elections.
Dear Democrats:
Hey.
How have you been? It’s been a while. The kids doing okay? Still trying to choose their genders? How did those investments in Solyndra work out?
Listen, we know it’s been a rough 25 years. It feels like ever since that hanging chad election in 2000, we have been at each other’s throats. That Bush/Gore controversy seemed to push us both into our worst selves, and too much of what we each have come to believe this past quarter of a century has been grounded in rumor, innuendo, and straight-out media hype. We mostly blame you for this, as you control most of the media, and a one-sided media that makes money by fabricating controversy can lead the best of us down insane ratholes of disinformation: 9/11 Truthers, that Mossad agent behind that tree in your backyard, and worst of all, “Trump/Russia Collusion” (we’ll get to that).
But we have our fair share too—Birthers, Big Mikers, and the QAnon nutters, just to name a few. We can be just as crazy as you are sometimes.
What has made it worse is that a lot of us on both sides only engage with media and commentators who tell us exactly what we want to hear. You have MSNBC. We have Fox. You have Keith Olbermann. We have Alex Jones.
We get it. We really do. Who knows what to believe in a world of wholly contrary narratives where clicks mean dollars?
