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Truth is a cornerstone of our democracy. ...[T]ruth is one of the things that separates us from an autocracy....

— Michiko Kakutani The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump (2018)

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If a novelist had concocted a villain like Trump—a larger-than-life, over-the-top avatar of narcissism, mendacity, ignorance, prejudice, boorishness, demagoguery, and tyrannical impulses..

The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump (2018)

Trump and nationalist, anti-immigrant leaders on the right in Europe... would inflame... feelings of fear and anger and disenfranchisement, offering scapegoats instead of solutions...

The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump (2018)

Nationalism, tribalism, dislocation, fears of social change, and the hatred of outsiders are on the rise again as people, locked in their partisan silos and filter bubbles, are losing sense of shared reality and the ability to communicate across social and sectarian lines.

The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump (2018)

Combined with Trump's subversion of long-time alliances and trade accords and his steady undermining of democratic ideals, the carelessness with which his administration treated foreign policy led to world confidence in U.S. leadership plummeting in 2017 to a new low of 30 percent (below China and just above Russia) according to a Gallup pole.

The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump (2018)

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