"....once you've convinced enough people that truth is just whatever you say..." [View all]
Thom Hartmann
March 11, 2026 8:00AM ET
....once you’ve convinced enough people that truth is just whatever you say no matter how outrageous or transparently false it is, you can do pretty much anything.
You can bomb a school full of little girls and blame the victims.You can try to rig an election and, when you lose, call it stolen from you. You can watch a million Americans die and say the virus is just going to disappear. You can claim that tax cuts for billionaires will help average working-class people. You can say that increasing poisons in the air and on our crops will Make America Healthy Again. You can argue that destroying unions will increase working people’s standard of living. You can claim that taking people’s healthcare away “encourages individual initiative” and “independence.”
Trump didn’t invent this. But my G-d, has he ever perfected it.
Trump also didn’t build this lie machine all by himself. Most of it was built for him, over a period of 50 years, with billions of dollars, by morbidly rich people who never appear on television and never have to answer for any of it.
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-iran-2675993330/
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