Dick Polman: MAGA Has Perfected the Unrepentant Lie

MAGA has perfected the unrepentant lie

Politicians have been lying since the dawn of our formerly vibrant democracy.

Dick Polman: MAGA has perfected the unrepentant lie

Politicians have been lying since the dawn of our formerly vibrant democracy. Random examples abound. John Adams and his pamphleteering surrogates said that Thomas Jefferson if elected would shut down all the churches. JFK tried to pump up his anti-Soviet credentials by inveighing against a Republican-created “missile gap” that in truth did not exist. Bill Clinton said, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” But nothin…