As I read this article I kept flashing on the tens of millions of Americans who refuse to believe the broad outline of consensus reality, replacing it instead with alternative facts... trashing all mainstream media as fake news... inventing spur-of-the-moment conspiracy theories whenever Reality doesn’t suit them... Trump’s verbatim declaration that “any negative polls are fake news,” and now — as we seem to be nearing the end — the surging popularity of QAnon.
