It began with birtherism and ‘alternative facts’ | Letters to the editor

It began with birtherism and ‘alternative facts’ | Letters to the editor

“We hold these truths to be self-evident.”  Not anymore. When we let slide the advent of birtherism and didn’t fully expose it and denounce it, not simply because of its intimation of racism but because it was an assault on the whole notion of truth, we began the descent into the tolerance of “alternative facts” and outright lies. “Nancy Pelosi engineered the Jan. 6 insurrection.” Ho, hum. Too few found that false statement, or a hundred other o…