Opinion | This is how you lose a culture war - The Washington Post - 0 views
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Americans have been living in what look like different worlds for years now. Sometimes, a difference in opinion really is just a difference in opinion even when the right answer seems abundantly obvious, and abundantly opposite, to the two sides: whether Confederate statues ought to come down
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Sometimes, what’s marketed as a difference in opinion really is a difference in ability to accept the facts. Is human behavior causing the globe to warm? The only right answer there is “yes.”
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Trump lies — a lot. So as many differences of opinion as there are between his supporters and his opposers, there are at least as many differences of facts — and the enduring willingness of his allies to land on the wrong side of those facts has allowed him to survive.