Do Facts Matter in Politics?

The picture above appeared during the mid-terms of 2022, and it actually says something quite profound about how politics and the political narrative has played out over the past four years.

What I am talking about first got noticed in a comment made by Trump on April 7, 2020, when he began talking about the possibility that some kind of election fraud was going to take place, initially because of the degree to which many states had begun promoting mail-in ballots in order to protect their populations from Covid-19.

Trump made this comment the day of the Wisconsin primary election where voters stood in long lines, thus increasing the odds that they might get infected by the Pandemic. He would go on to make ‘voter fraud’ the rhetorical centerpiece of his campaign, culminating with the crazy Rudy Giuliani press conference outside of a lawn-care company in North Philadelphia when Rudy announced that his ‘dream team’ would prove that a national conspiracy existed to steal the election from Donald Trump.

Even after this legal barrage by Giuliani et. al., failed in every legal and political venue where it was trotted out, and even Trump himself was indicted for an attempt to steal votes in Georgia, the liberal media continues to report every stupid and inflammatory comment made by Trump in this respect because somehow, don’t ask me why or how, every…