Tyler Austin Harper: “The 45th president has been subjected to a sustained fact-checking campaign for the better part of a decade. I do not think it’s an exaggeration to say that no politician in American history has been fact-checked more thoroughly than Donald Trump.”
“And yet, all those years of myth-busting have had next to zero impact on his electoral viability.
He managed to attract new voters in the last election. And even as he spouts racist nonsense about immigrants—thoroughly myth-busted by journalists—he is increasing his share of non-college-educated voters of color in this election.”“My point isn’t that Democrats should give up on fact-checking, but that they need to remember that debunking is not a substitute for politics.”