Last month, President Trump gave a brief prime-time address in which he boasted of bringing America into a new era of economic prosperity. In those eighteen minutes of self-celebration he cited a number of statistics that were not merely wrong — they were not even lies in the usual sense — but actual absurdities. This led me to thinking about the point of the unbelievable in the MAGA movement, and further led me to thinking about 1984.
Ojalá has published a short essay, reflecting my thoughts. It appears in English and Spanish, both.
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