American Epistemology

For a while, with all the talk of 'post-truth', I had been wondering if we hadn't stumbled into a dumbed-down post-modernism. Pidgeon Post Modernity, if you will. But that didn't feel right. Something simpler, and thus harder to grasp, was driving all the denialism and dissembling of American conservatives and so-called populists.

Here it is, crystalline in clarity:

"This is as clear a distillation of Trump’s epistemology as you could hope for. Simply put: Might makes right."