politics

I think one of the most salient points of Donald Trump is that with him you’re entitled to your own reality, even if it doesn’t have a shred to do with the real world. It’s a carnival of subjective truths, a free-for-all where every lie is valid as long as it sells. Meanwhile, the Democrats, in their infinite arrogance, insisted, No, no, no—you’re only entitled to our reality, the one stamped and approved by exiled blue-check experts and focus groups. 

Republicans? They understand chaos better: “Sure,” they said, “make your own reality. Believe what you want—deep state conspiracies, flat earth, whatever. Just hand us the keys to the car.” And when they inevitably wreck it? They point a crooked finger across the aisle and say, “Well, this is all the Democrats’ fault. It’s their reality…If they hadn’t made such a mess of the road, we wouldn’t have crashed in the first place.”