Phantasmagoria – Medium

the reality-based community... people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality... That’s not the way the world really works anymore... We’re an empire... we create our own reality. ...
Trump is building on the foundation laid by Karl Rove and other great American fabulists, but he’s doing something fundamentally different ... he’s adopted the style of... former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov, also known as Putin’s Karl Rove... His aim is to undermine peoples’ perceptions of the world, so they never know what is really happening... not to win the war, but to use the conflict to create a constant state of destabilized perception, in order to manage and control...
Trump and his advisers ... have no interest in creating a new reality; instead, they’re calling into question the existence of any reality... creating a pervasive sense of unreality in which truth is little more than an arbitrary personal decision...
When politics becomes fundamentally unreal, the nature of political decision-making changes. Everything is fiction, so voters can only choose the fiction that best suits their taste and aligns with their self-image.