“Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore — I mean, that’s how Trump got elected. He just said whatever he wanted, and people believed everything, and when the things he said turned out not to be true, people didn’t care because they’d already accepted it. It’s real scary. I’ve never seen anything like it.” PoliticsSatireFree SpeechRationalityCritical ThinkingDonald TrumpFake NewsTrump Popularity Explained Author:Paul Horner
“I thought they’d fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then they find out it’s false, then they look like idiots. But Trump supporters — they just keep running with it! They never fact-check anything! Now he’s in the White House. Looking back, instead of hurting the campaign, I think I helped it. And that feels [bad].” PoliticsSatireFree SpeechRationalityCritical ThinkingDonald TrumpFake NewsTrump Popularity Explained Author:Paul Horner