he uttered perhaps the most honest statement of his presidency: “Don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news.… Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not happening.” This quote is the Rosetta Stone of Republican political strategy. Trump, who has always struggled to distinguish between inside and outside thoughts, admitted out loud what Roger Ailes and his ilk had spent decades trying to achieve under the cover of “fair and balanced” journalism: Don’t trust anyone else. Don’t believe your eyes or your ears. Believe only what we tell you. Indeed,
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