Letter from Daniel Gomes
When the Govt. Is Not Trusted
Once people are convinced by MAGA campaigns that their government and the mainstream media can’t be trusted, the purveyors of that propaganda are then free to suggest counterfactual scenarios. Without accepted fact checkers, MAGA devotees can just claim facts without having to prove them. It’s their core strategy.
It’s a convenient method to never have to refute embarrassing facts with actual evidence. It forces good people to become vulnerable to “alternative facts” and conspiracy theories. Chaos is the object of the game in the MAGA playbook.
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