RE: Trump claims largest ever crowd for inaugeration
January 22, 2017 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2017 at 5:19 pm by Anomalocaris.)
It won't be just 4 years. The trend has been gethering strength in right wing circles since the 1980s, and has burst onto mainstream political discourse and grew from there since 1994.
Even if the unlikely event were to transpire where trump would be undone by the "alternative facts", the odious practice of this administration would nonetheless further increase the perception of general acceptability and efficacy of contempt for facts in competition within the grotesquely debased America politics. If trump puts 2 right wing justices into the Supreme Court before his demise, then no matter what the manner of his demise, absolute and overt contempt for facts would remain the default and probably only political strategy for the next 50 years. Why should facts matter if the purpose of pursuing politics is not the furtherance of public good?
Even if the unlikely event were to transpire where trump would be undone by the "alternative facts", the odious practice of this administration would nonetheless further increase the perception of general acceptability and efficacy of contempt for facts in competition within the grotesquely debased America politics. If trump puts 2 right wing justices into the Supreme Court before his demise, then no matter what the manner of his demise, absolute and overt contempt for facts would remain the default and probably only political strategy for the next 50 years. Why should facts matter if the purpose of pursuing politics is not the furtherance of public good?
