For those of us outside the United States, just reading about President Donald Trump’s careless disregard for facts is frustrating enough. I cannot imagine how surreal – and frightening – it must be for many who live in a country where the people in power do not even pretend that truth matters.
How does Trump get away with it? How is it possible that tens of millions of the Maga faithful continue to buy into his bellicose and cruel vision for the country and believe in his lies, some of which are so hilariously ludicrous that they would not fool anyone with the barest modicum of intelligence?
Instead of calling out the blatant, at times bizarre, falsehoods spewed by their boss-patron, Trump’s obsequious acolytes and the entire Republican Party apparatus choose to toe the line, however ridiculous that line often is.