Republicans and Democrats no longer consume the same media. We no longer agree on a set of objective facts. The very idea of a “fact” is now questioned. For many Republicans, math and science are to be questioned and, ultimately, dismissed if they run counter to partisan ideology. Truth is in the eye of the beholder. Information bubbles exist. Radicalization happens online. People start watching a few videos about a topic of interest, and a few months later, they storm the US Capitol or try to convince family and friends to avoid submitting to one of Bill Gates’s mind-control experiments via
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