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Monday, June 20, 2016

Post-Truth Politics

Salon: Trump’s lies aren’t unique to America: Post-truth politics are killing democracies on both sides of the Atlantic - Voters no longer value truth, and Donald Trump and Boris Johnson are dangerously exploiting the new paradigm by Brogan Morris
All the same, these two politicians are popular – immensely so – because they’ve discovered they can reach the top simply by inventing their own versions of the truth. For various reasons, not only are they getting away with cooking up their own “facts,” but Trump and Johnson are as a result of their fabrications gaining new supporters all the time.

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