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American Conservatives explicitly admitted they are not part of the reality-based community (their words) back in 2004 [1]. In 2017 Kellyanne Conway offered "alternative facts" (her words). In a lawsuit, Fox News admitted that Tucker Carlson's commentary was not to be taken literally. Alex Jones similarly claimed in a lawsuit that his work is "performance art" and is playing a character like The Joker. [4]

It's constantly disappointing how the apparent intellectuals who frequent and operate HN will rally to that side out of libertarian convenience and out of annoyance and disgust at "wokism". And then will inevitably be shocked when everything goes sideways again. Hopefully the education will stick longer this time than it did after G.W.Bush.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts

[3] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...

[4] https://mashable.com/article/alex-jones-defense-performance-...