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> the USA Right in general has completely broken with the idea that there is any such thing as "fact" that matters

This viewpoint is being thrown around lately, and it's bugging me but I still can't quite explain why. The crowning of this theory was Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year being "post-truth".

I mean, is this pair of articles not an example of "post-truth"?

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201...

(Bonus: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/18/upshot/donald-trump-modera...)

It just feels to me like a situation where the same entities who have been conjecturing wildly on thin grounds for years are now shocked that the masses can conjecture wildly too.

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