But let’s not focus too much on Mr.

But let’s not focus too much on Mr.
But now we have the man who ran the Miss Universe competition in Moscow three years ago, and who declared just last year
that “I know Russia well,” then last month said, “I haven’t called Russia in 10 years.”
On matters of policy, politicians used to limit their misrepresentations of facts and impacts to relatively hard-to-verify assertions.
Even the real possibility that we’re facing subversion by agents of a foreign power, and
that top officials are part of the story, doesn’t seem to faze them as long as they can get tax cuts for the rich and benefit cuts for the poor.
It was a speech filled with falsehoods and vile policy proposals,
but read calmly off the teleprompter — and suddenly everyone was declaring the liar in chief “presidential.”
The point is that if that’s all it takes to exonerate the most dishonest man ever to hold high office in America, we’re doomed.
Meanwhile, Republican primary election voters, who are the real arbiters when polarized and/or gerrymandered districts make
the general election irrelevant for many politicians, live in a Fox News bubble into which awkward truths never penetrate.