"If the rest of the nation were as authoritarian, cultish, conspiratorial, and willingly gullible as the Trump base, the condition of democracy wouldn’t just be dire. It would be terminal.
"Yet
over time, truth has always had a power and resilience all its own. You
shouldn’t bet against it, even in these disconcerting times." -- Scot Lehigh, Boston Globe, on "The GOP's Bad Bet: Declaring War on the Truth."