they won because they lied. over, and over, and over. they built a whole ecosystem of lies.

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9. That's not the only problem

The other problem is that it’s not just about truth vs. lies — the average American voter actively wants to be lied to.

They want to live in a world where we can build a wall all the way across the Southern border and Mexico will pay for it, where tariffs can be placed on all imports and the price of everything will go down, where you can end all crime by deporting millions of immigrants, and that deporting millions of immigrants will be easy and totally won’t have any negative effect on the economy.

None of these can be done, but Americans will gladly vote for someone who tells them it can over someone who tells them it can’t.

This is why Americans flip back and forth at the ballot box. They vote for Republicans, who promise them impossible things, then they vote for Democrats when they realize that Republicans have just made things worse. But as soon as Democrats get things back on track, voters are ready for fantasy land again. How do you combat that?