The Art of the Lie Has Become Acceptable, For Now

Trump’s most shameful legacy

MartinEdic
4 min readJun 20, 2024
Photo by Bruna Araujo on Unsplash

It used to be called ‘spin’, putting an angle on a damaging story to lessen its impact. But these days we don’t bother with euphemisms, we just straight out lie. At least that appears to be the primary strategy of the right and it’s based on the success of their guy, Don Trump.

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MartinEdic

Mastodon: @martinedic@md.dm, Writer, nine non-fiction books, two novels, Buddhist, train lover. Amateur cook, lover of life most of the time!