I get into this in AMERICAN RULE.

Republicans realized they couldn’t maintain power in reality, so they created their own paranoid world and vilified democracy and science.

This is how you get Trumpism and a team of “doctors” who traffic in propaganda. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611439/american-rule-by-jared-yates-sexton/

The myths of white supremacy and American Exceptionalism are lies with no basis in reality. Empirical evidence shows us they’re untrue.

But Republicans rely on the lie for power, profit, and control. To protect it, they war against reality, democracy, and science.

Of course Trump’s doctors and administration are lying. Lying is their only move at any time. Fascism friends on the lie because it’s founded on the lie.

It’s the worship of the lie.

Even a momentary glimpse of truth is enough for the brittle ideology of fascism to crumble.

Fascism is the weaponization of reality and this is why anyone who dissents or questions the artificial reality is either neutralized, threatened, brutalized, or disappeared.

It’s a war for the control of reality and a violent defense of the lie.

Trump’s medical condition can’t be dealt with in any reality resembling objective truth. It has to be manipulated, covered up, subject to propaganda.

Trumpism/fascism is so tenuous that any slip, no matter how minor or human, is enough to disrupt the relentless illusion.

Trumpism/fascism has to consume science and medicine, it has to pervert it for its own survival.

It’s about the line between personal truth and empirical truth. What we’re seeing right now is pseudoscience with an intent to propagandize and protect the lie.

And make no mistake, this has been aided for years by an insistence to treat anti-science movements like climate change denial as legitimate, good-faith positions by people who know full and well climate change is real.

This didn’t just happen. It was a process.

We reached this moment of Trumpism/fascism because people knew facts and democracy didn’t serve them politically, so they decided to construct this artificial reality in order to preserve their power and profit.

This is bad faith politics metastasized into a societal threat.