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It\u2019s taken me more than a decade, but I think I\u2019ve finally figured Donald Trump out.<\/p>\n

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Basically, whatever Trump says publicly, I\u2019ve taken to assume the precise opposite is true. He says the war in Iran is going well? I\u2019ll know it\u2019s going horribly. He claims to know nothing about the proposed $1.776 billion slush fund? You can bet he plotted the whole thing out from scratch. He boasts that he\u2019s been totally exonerated in the Epstein Files? You can assume he\u2019s up to his eyeballs in guilt.<\/p>\n

But in fact, this assumption means everything our president is involved in \u2013 and by extension the larger Republican Party \u2013 remains an uneasy, anxiety-riddled guessing game. As \u201cThe X-Files\u201d once teased, \u201cThe truth is out there\u201d \u2013 but good luck finding it.<\/p>\n

This chronically unsettling point has been driven home to me this week as everyone sat vigil by Sen. Mitch McConnell\u2019s virtual bedside wondering if he was really at death\u2019s door as the rumor mill claimed. It wasn\u2019t that this was at all difficult to believe, of course. The Kentucky senator\u2019s decline had hardly been a well-kept secret, including his freezes during press conferences and concerns over consistent falls. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s wrenching, if not particularly surprising, to learn that not even death can escape politicization in the 21st century. No one trusts the official narrative about McConnell\u2019s condition because there isn\u2019t one. So, media speculation and intense distrust naturally take hold.<\/p>\n

And of course, it\u2019s hardly limited to McConnell. Our president shows blotchy skin and bruised hands and a propensity to fall asleep during both public and private events, and we\u2019re condemned for daring to question the party line that he\u2019s in perfect health.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also not restricted to the Republicans. Joe Biden\u2019s declining mental acuity was studiously covered up two years ago, you may recall, until it all spilled out in one presidential debate.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that it\u2019s perfectly understandable to imagine that we don\u2019t really<\/em><\/em> know anything and we\u2019re always being played in one form or another. Is it any wonder we have a professional con artist in charge of things? Trump oversees an administration that\u2019s first and foremost a self-enriching criminal enterprise, and a disturbing percentage of the American people defend it as normal and righteous.<\/p>\n

We all believe what we want to believe at the end of the day. But during the nightmarish years when Trump has been at the forefront of our consciousness, we are consistently presented a distorted image of reality that leaves us questioning our own sanity.<\/p>\n

In the process, the standards of behavior we consider acceptable have continued to plummet. How else to explain the choice of Graham Platner as the best the Democrats could put up as a senatorial candidate in Maine? Even before the latest sexual assault allegations that finally drove a fatal nail through his campaign, he managed to explain away a past of PTSD, alcoholism, and issues with women that at the very least rose to the level of disturbing.<\/p>\n

Oh, and a chest tattoo that Platner claimed not to have known was a Nazi symbol.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying people don\u2019t deserve a second chance. But those who supported this guy had to look past enough baggage to fill a cargo hold. We still probably don\u2019t know half of Platner\u2019s issues because, again, we are now a society that thrives on murkiness, exclusion, deception \u2013 and keeping facts hidden from the light.<\/p>\n

We are a culture that once seemed to value truthfulness but now favors\u2026well, let\u2019s just say a curated version of reality that keeps anyone who\u2019s paying attention from believing they\u2019re ever seeing a genuine picture.<\/p>\n

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I get that virtually every major institution has incentives to manage its image. Governments work to project competence and stability \u2013 at least, they did until this one, which favors chaos and discomfort to achieve its goals. Corporations, universities, nonprofits, sports leagues and media organizations all have reputational interests that generally supersede authenticity. This doesn\u2019t automatically mean they\u2019re fabricating reality, but it does mean they\u2019re rarely neutral parties.<\/p>\n

Second, we\u2019ve become much more aware of every group\u2019s self-serving incentives and image management. A generation ago, most people consumed information from a handful of newspapers and TV broadcasts. Today, we also see leaked emails, internal memos, whistleblower accounts, court filings, body-camera footage, FOIA releases, social media posts and the occasional journalistic investigation.<\/p>\n

The public gets to peer behind the curtain and sample the dirt, but from such bits and pieces a consensus rarely emerges. More often, it just creates greater apprehension and confusion.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s part of the irony. What seems like greater transparency is merely an illusion and actually makes the daily turmoil feel less <\/em><\/em>transparent because we keep discovering that the official story was incomplete, if not totally misleading.<\/p>\n

Another issue is the way today\u2019s information rewards certainty more than nuance. News organizations like the one I write columns for compete for attention. Politicians compete for votes. Social media rewards compelling narratives. Complex realities are often compressed into stories that are easier to communicate but don\u2019t fully capture what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not necessarily a matter of everything being fake or orchestrated. Reality is often less conspiratorial and more mundane, and routine doesn\u2019t generate clicks. Thus, it\u2019s no surprise that sensationalism has taken to eclipsing strict accuracy.<\/p>\n

Artificial Intelligence hasn\u2019t helped. Twenty years ago, a photograph or video carried a strong presumption of legitimacy. That\u2019s no longer the case. The questions now come like machine-gun fire:<\/p>\n