Daily Take The GOP’s Addiction to Lies: The Death of Truth and the Rise of Post-Fact Politics
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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When lies become policy and propaganda becomes identity, democracy itself is put at risk…
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| 1:00.3 | The GOP's addiction to lies, the death of truth and the rise of post-fact politics. |
| 1:07.4 | Recently, I mentioned that when I was 13 years old, I went toward the door with my dad for Barry Goldwater. |
| 1:12.5 | Three years later, I was living on my own in East Lansing getting tear-gast and beaten for |
| 1:16.7 | demonstrating against the Vietnam War. In other words, I've seen and participated deeply in both |
| 1:23.0 | the right and left sides of American politics. Although his position against the Civil Rights Act was reprehensible, I took Goldwater |
| 1:30.8 | at his word that it was based on his concern about federal overreach in the Tenth Amendment. |
| 1:37.0 | Having read his books, I came to deeply respect his principled stance, even though I also |
| 1:41.5 | deeply disagreed with most of them. As most historians will confirm, |
| 1:46.2 | Barry Goldwater believed what he said, and never, so far as I can find, knowingly lied to the American |
| 1:51.3 | people. That was my dad's Republican Party. They'd spin or shade the truth, but rarely told what they knew |
| 1:57.0 | were naked lies, and many among them deeply believed in the principles they espoused. |
| 2:02.4 | That party is dead. Today's Republican politician quite literally lies for a living, as you can see on |
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