I think this is absolutely right. You’ve got a generation of wannabe political operatives who were reared on and actually buy into their own propaganda, which turns out to be a liability when you need an accurate model of how the political world works.https://thebulwark.com/jacob-wohl-couldnt-hold-roger-stones-jock/ …
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If your model says accusations of sexual misconduct are routinely fabricated as a political strategy, you will be surprised to discover this is pretty difficult to pull off, and almost nobody wants to be recruited to play the accuser role.
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If your model says journalists are lazy propagandists uninterested in truth or fact checking, you will be surprised when they not only refuse to fall for your clumsy cons, but fairly easily map the details of how and why you tried to con them, and report that instead.
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TL;dr -- they got high on their own supply
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