The Republican Party and a substantial portion of its backers, its minions of true believe-anything-ers and useful-idiot Internet trolls, and a media that can’t be bothered to stand up to them, will clear a wide and disgraceful path in the public discourse to allow anti-climate policy to proceed, as though it made any sense at all by any standard of measurement.

It is no wonder Trump feels free to say anything that comes into his head without fear of rebuttal. There is no standard left to rebut with. Republicans have ignored and denied mathematics, and they have ignored and denied science. And they have planted and nurtured a dark garden of followers who do not understand, respect or defer to mathematics or science. Scientists and mathematicians are among the “elites” that Trump voters want to drain out of Washington. But it’s not that they really care that much about science. It is the actual Republican elites — fossil fuel interests, investors and corporations who simply enjoy the prerogative of externalizing their wastes cost-free into the public atmosphere — who have done this.

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These corporate “leaders” and the Republican “leaders” in government, have led their party in the inexorable destruction of public respect for science. And as goes science, so goes truth. And as goes truth, so goes democracy. And here we go.