Roger Cohen notes:
“It has been said that Trump’s extraordinary election victory owed much to his intuitions about the anger in the heartland. There is some truth in this. But his essential intuition was into the readiness of Americans, suspended between the real and the virtual, for a post-truth presidency.”
The “LOL Nothing Matters” Presidency
Philosophy professor Harry Frankfurt’s famous essay:
http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_bullshit.pdf
Trump’s Lies Are a Virus, and News
Organizations Are the Host
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/should-media-repeat-trumps-lies/576148/