had to confront it and work your way out of it. in this case it doesn t matter. i will say this is not it s unique in american history, it s not ue, of course, in other countries. there s a powerful essay written by vaclav havel who was a magnificent and eloquent czech dissident and he wrote an essay called the power and the powerless and he talked about what happens when a polity, a group of citizens live within a lie and what happens it s a corrosive effect on the civic culture and political culture and that s where we are and why it s so important that people not willing to live between lie, in havel s flaz live within the truth speak the truth, that s the press, those are political figures and citizens but it has to be republicans. what s troubling here, it s no surprise trump is doing this,