Disdain for President Donald Trump translates into a refusal to accept reality if doing it gives Trump a political victory. Examples include, but are certainly not limited to, the continuing assertion that Trump, about Charlottesville, said some variation of, “There were good and bad white nationalists and neo-Nazis on both sides”; the denial of the Hunter Biden laptop; that Trump “mocked” a disabled reporter; that Trump said to “drink bleach” to fight COVID; and that the Trump tax cuts “only benefit the rich.”
Former President Joe Biden, who called climate change an “existential threat to the planet,” engaged in what Trump called a “war on gas.” Yet, Democrats like Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) point to the record production levels to deride Trump’s “war on gas” accusation as merely “rhetorical.” Even Biden called his Inflation…
