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In the face of a sceptical reporter, a senior Republican White House operative dismissed his views. Guys like you were âin what we call the reality-based communityâ, he sneered. âThatâs not the way the world really works anymore.â
That comment could very well have come from the Donald Trump White House. It did not. It was delivered by a senior aide to the previous Republican president, George W. Bush, more than a decade before Trump declared his candidacy.
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But it was Trump who brought it closest to fulfilment. By creating an alternative reality so powerful that many tens of millions of Americans believe that fiction is fact. By creating a mass delusion so persuasive that he tried to establish himself as Americaâs first dictator on the strength of it.