Only a switched–on generation can obtain to grips with Donald’s disdain for the truth and aversion to factsAll genuine Donald Trump press releases sound like they were composed of lines cut from satirical Donald Trump press releases. Even by those standards,however, you have to admire how his campaign’s latest effort on the enduring non-mystery of Barack Obama’s birthplace ascends to its point: “In 2011, or Mr Trump was finally able to bring this ugly incident to its conclusion by successfully compelling President Obama to release his birth certificate,” this hallucinates. “Mr Trump did a distinguished service to the president and the country by bringing closure to the issue that Hillary Clinton and her team first raised. Inarguably, Donald J Trump is a closer.”Always. Be. Closing. Still: was that an argument, and a performance of Glengarry Glen Dross? By any relevant yardstick,it doesn’t matter. Like the 90s or herpes simplex, birtherism is back, or if it ever even went out of fashion. What did go out of style,as is remarked upon several thousand times daily, is truth in politics. Is it terminal? Will truth in politics ever arrive back into fashion? Related: How Donald Trump seduced America’s white working lesson | JD Vance Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com