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![A lot of people care about Trump’s lying
When I give speeches about my work reporting on Trump’s lies, one of the most common questions I get from the audience is some variation of, “Thank you, but it’s clear that nobody cares, right?” I argue that this is false, too. It’s clear that millions of Americans either don’t believe debunkings from mainstream outlets or aren’t interested in them, but it’s also clear that millions of Americans want to know when and how the president is trying to deceive them.
Polls spanning Trump’s entire career have [1] found [2] that somewhere around twice as many Americans do not think he is honest and trustworthy as think he is honest and trustworthy. He’s won two presidential elections, of course, but it’s not like he’s ever convinced the entire population to stop caring about whether he is telling the truth.
Facts would matter even if only a few people were seeking them out. Fortunately, it’s far more than a few.
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/08/politics/donald-trump-trust
[2] https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2026-05/ABC%20News-Washington%20Post-Ipsos%20April%20Poll%20Topline.pdf](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sni4wbvzklmpyb72rc2uw4ay/bafkreia7xte72oryyzhqap4a4t5ypqhw7v4fkpkj26fm7v5x4ac7hcwiiy)
![The Corruption of Lindsey Graham
A case study in the rise of authoritarianism.
Will Saletan
May 09, 2023
[The Corruption of Lindsey Graham is also available in these formats:
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https://specialto.thebulwark.com/s/corruption-of-lindsey-graham/archive ]
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS IN BIG TROUBLE, and Lindsey Graham knew it. It was January 21, 2016, and the senator was taking questions at a press conference. A month earlier, he had abandoned his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Now two men he despised, Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz, were leading the race.
Graham thought either of them, if nominated, would lose the general election. Choosing between them, he told reporters, was “like being shot or poisoned. What does it really matter?”
Two months later, in March, Graham changed his mind. He endorsed Cruz and joked that it was better to be poisoned than shot. “Donald is like being shot in the head,” Graham told talk-show host Trevor Noah. “You might find an antidote to poisoning, I don’t know. But maybe there’s time.”
Graham was wrong. Trump wasn’t a shot to the head. He didn’t kill the GOP. In fact, he won the election.
Trump turned out to be poison. Over the next five years, he thoroughly corrupted Graham’s party. Republican leaders had time to counteract the poison, but they never did. One reason was that the poison moved slowly. Graham and other Republican politicians lost the ability to see what they were becoming. They rallied around an authoritarian, excused authoritarian acts, and embraced authoritarian ideas.
This is a story about how that happened.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sni4wbvzklmpyb72rc2uw4ay/bafkreifpnl7ypqvmhswfv3plmy3fejq7xgu46aec7kdxvdjcvjdzui4mby)
