Since President Donald Trump’s election, if not before, a conventional wisdom has emerged that Americans are living in a “post-truth” age. Whether they’re talking about Trump’s dealings with Ukraine or debates about climate change, many journalists, scholars and observers now commonly declare that voters are consuming fake news and rejecting facts, putting the American democratic experiment at serious risk, particularly as we approach another election.
Politico: No, we’re not living in a post-fact world
Newspaper front pages are on display at the Newseum in Washington, DC, on Dec. 19, 2019, after US President Donald Trump's historic impeachment by the House of Representatives on Dec. 18, 2019.
