Alex Weston (he/him) on Nostr: Politicians and pundits have always twisted facts, misrepresented their opponents, ...
Politicians and pundits have always twisted facts, misrepresented their opponents, and lied by omission. But a distorted and misrepresented fact still begins as a fact. Our current political discourse has abandoned even this pretense, and just drifted into pure fantasyland.
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