prospeks. i think i contributes to the creation of alternative reality media but the real thing what we don t do, we did not push back hard enough against the crackpots, against the folks who later became the alt right. back in the 1960s, william f. buckley drew a line and exited the john burch society because he wasn t a rhino, but he said this is a healthy intellectually honest movement. and we did not do that. we don t have the gate keepers and we didn t draw a line when donald trump began spouting the birther conspiracy and the white national afts began spouting off and that is a moral and political failure. why wasn t that a disqualifier. why wasn t the idea of believing in a bizarre conspiracy theory that would have been a disqualifier in any other generation, why wasn t that a