I don’t know how anyone is expected to make sense of the moment, when the decrepit infrastructures of sense-making are finally seizing up. Trump’s “one simple trick” — to lie, and to lie with a big enough base behind you – works, and journalism hates him for it. Rust sets into the newspaper industry; I feel like there haven’t been any new columnists in …
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