When is a lie not a lie? When you want to believe it:
When is a lie not a lie? When you want to believe it:
This is what Hahl et al. call “the authentic appeal of the lying demagogue”: the idea that lying is not only acceptable but seen as a sign of a certain kind of honesty, if done in service of a traditional group under threat from an upstart social movement.
In #TrumpNation #fakenews is when you disagree with the facts, lies are acceptable and only Democrats and liberals are being held to any kind of standard.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/2/17923574/brett-kavanaugh-ford-hearing-lies-republicans
This is what Hahl et al. call “the authentic appeal of the lying demagogue”: the idea that lying is not only acceptable but seen as a sign of a certain kind of honesty, if done in service of a traditional group under threat from an upstart social movement.
In #TrumpNation #fakenews is when you disagree with the facts, lies are acceptable and only Democrats and liberals are being held to any kind of standard.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/2/17923574/brett-kavanaugh-ford-hearing-lies-republicans
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