How Trump Is Trying to Govern America Like an Internet Troll

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

He's finding that a strategy that works well for promoting doubt on Twitter is less effective before the courts

One could be forgiven for thinking the very concept of truth is passé after the events of the past year.

The Oxford English Dictionary declared "post-truth" its 2016 Word of the Year, and the term "fake news" has now disseminated into the political water like the effluence of an oil tanker spill. Looking around, it's hard not to feel like we now live in a world of trolls: a bewildering swarm of contradictions and illusions where facts have no purchase. The #MAGA-spewing denizens of Twitter and Reddit who've lent a youthful and tech-savvy shine to Trump's movement, appear to have watched their culture of nihilism and abuse triumph over any semblance of factuality and earnestness.

All of a sudden, one is a patsy for caring, a fool for believing in the power of truth-telling.

But as this new administration rounds out its disastrous first month, the gravity of reality is starting to pull Trump's carnival back to Earth. After witnessing Trump get shamed by the Ninth Circuit, the forceful mass protests against him and the humiliating loss of Michael Flynn, we must tentatively and hopefully admit that the truth still means something.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/how-trump-is-trying-to-govern-america-like-an-internet-troll-w468518?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=022317_16

[ismnotwasm]

1. Pretty much

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Just lost my appetite for dinner

[ismnotwasm]

3. Sorry

[leftstreet]

4. LOLOL

[demtenjeep]

5. seems to be a thing now. Trolls live among us

and gain favor all the while laughing behind our backs