How did American elites behave during the election of 2020, an emergency if there ever was one? It was the final opportunity, as I recall, to remove the fascists in the White House, the Russian puppets in the Oval Office, the white nationalists putting babies in cages. And under such circumstances, truth in reporting was no longer seen as a democratic norm. As the Hunter Biden laptop episode proved, it was regarded as an unaffordable luxury in the face of an existential threat. The ruling elite of nearly every national institution—the press and universities, major corporations and tech
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