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I am in particular agreement with your last paragraph, well-stated. Covid was even worse than the Iraq War as an episode of incompetent "expert" liars and their media allies showing us who they are. And Menand thinks we are insufficiently deferential? I loved the Metaphysical Club but I hate to think how obnoxious that book would be if he rewrote it now.

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(Years of “science-bashing” and “anti-government messaging have taught Americans not to.”)

Actually, it's decades of being lied to by the ruling elites that has shown us that we are, in fact, being lied to.

WMD.

Iraq's involvement in 9/11.

Desperate attempts to crucify anyone who would suggest that the strange mutant COVID virus killing millions came from the lab modifying COVID in the town where the outbreak originated.

And these are just the lies (which strangely always seem to be incredibly profitable for the donor class!) that have resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Then there's the economic policies:

Offshoring is good, actually!

Monopolies are fine!

Cutting taxes will make everyone rich!

Corporate profits and concentration of wealth have caused record inflation! We'd better throw more poor people out of work, because reasons!

Then predatory vulture capitalists can buy up more housing stock! The middle class not being able to build equity is good, actually!

If the government wants to be trusted, perhaps they should stop being caught in obvious transparent lies.

And if people want the government to stop lying to them, they need to hold their own parties accountable first.

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