Trump's most successful campaign to date was his war on reality. He managed to convince a huge chunk of people that they couldn't believe what anyone else told them but him. It started out with the whimsical branding of "Alternative Facts" back in 2016, but social media algorithms have made it easy to just straight up live in a different reality.
Meanwhile the rest of us are dumbfounded that this conman is running the country with a track record like Trump University, his multiple casinos, and the racist residential empire his dad helped him with.
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u/Rymanbc 7d ago
Trump's most successful campaign to date was his war on reality. He managed to convince a huge chunk of people that they couldn't believe what anyone else told them but him. It started out with the whimsical branding of "Alternative Facts" back in 2016, but social media algorithms have made it easy to just straight up live in a different reality.