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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]
Yes, I believe that the truth will matter in the long run. I grew up in Illinois -- the land of Lincoln -- where you will find statues of an monuments to Lincoln throughout the State. One that I frequently stopped at during car trips in my youth was engraved with a famous Lincoln quote: "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." Trump is able to fool his cadre of supporters all of the time. He is able to fool all of us some time (though we may not know which times), but he can't fool all of us all the time. When he says that Obama bugged Trump Tower, that is something that either happened or didn't happen. There is not a big gray area. If it didn't happen, Trump looks pretty crazy tweeting about it. If it did happen, there is a question of whether it was legal or not. Legal wire tapping would also be a problem for Trump. I suspect that even Trump doesn't believe there was illegal wiretapping, though that would be the best case for him. But, if the truth is that there was either no wiretapping, or legal wiretapping, Trump is not going to be able to fool all of us about it. Either of those scenarios will be a big problem for him. 
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I guess my question is more about whether the various factions of "fooled" vs. "not fooled" can continue to co-exist.  The poll that showed that 70% of registered Republicans either were unsure if Obama was born in the US or were sure he wasn't blew my mind last fall.  That's a huge fraction of Americans who believe, or are unsure, that the former POTUS was committing, for eight years, one of the most serious crimes in all of American history!  And that Congress did absolutely nothing about it.  How can a democracy continue to exist when people are so unsure about the person in the highest elected office?  We're seeing the opposite situation now, with a large number of Americans convinced POTUS is a Russian mole...and an increasingly large number of Americans convinced that the former POTUS is planting any evidence that suggests that while quietly planning a coup with a former senior aide in a NW DC mansion.

I just don't feel like this is a stable long term situation for a democracy.[/quote]

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