Currently, US politics is not a debate or even a discourse. It is a hostage situation. One side is holding the planet's future hostage. Their demands include cultural normalization of accepting non-truth as truth. It is their only hope of escaping consequences.

They are collectively mortified that justice might catching up, so the past must be made untrustworthy. Everything must be made fuzzy and deniable. All of it.
Otherwise their towering spire will sink into its foundation of sand.

— Chris Vickery (@VickerySec) May 16, 2019