In a Sunday morning tweetstorm, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush hammered the conservative media for “amplifying” the lies that come out of President-elect Donald Trump’s mouth thereby causing their readers or viewers to “lose touch with reality.”

In a series of posts of Twitter, speechwriter David Frum — who has long been critical of Trump — began by pointing out that the president-elect continues to lie about how well he did in the election as he disregards the fact that he lost the popular vote.

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“Trump’s lying about the popular vote has dangerous real-world consequences,” Frum wrote before accusing the president-elect of suffering from narcissistic personality disorder, and believing “the lies he tells, after he tells them.”

Therein lies the problem, Frum complains, laying out step-by-step how enabling Trump aides and an uncritical conservative media will inevitably make Republican lawmakers act recklessly damaging the conservative cause.

See the tweets below:

Trump’s lying about the popular vote has dangerous real-world consequences — David Frum (@davidfrum) December 18, 2016

1) Trump, a textbook case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, will believe the lies he tells, after he tells them https://t.co/ZCXPUGNxtc — David Frum (@davidfrum) December 18, 2016

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2) Meaning that Trump will live among ego-salving fantasies – a dangerous location for a president of the United States — David Frum (@davidfrum) December 18, 2016

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3) Worse, Trump will surround himself by people who repeat his lies back to him: either a) abject creatives or b) sinister manipulators — David Frum (@davidfrum) December 18, 2016

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4) Worse still: because the conservative media amplify Trump’s lies, the whole conservative world will lose touch with reality — David Frum (@davidfrum) December 18, 2016

5) Encouraging true believers – and compelling even pragmatists – to act en masse as if the lies were truth. — David Frum (@davidfrum) December 18, 2016

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6) Among other negative consequences, this will encourage reckless political risk-taking by Republicans in Congress — David Frum (@davidfrum) December 18, 2016

7) It remains true that Republican candidates for president have won the national popular vote only once since 1988: 1 in 7 elections! — David Frum (@davidfrum) December 18, 2016

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8) The party’s agenda is not popular in real-life. That would seem to suggest … caution. — David Frum (@davidfrum) December 18, 2016

9) Instead, it seems congressional Republicans are about to plunge ahead as if the country were clamoring for their program. — David Frum (@davidfrum) December 18, 2016

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10) Some congressional Republicans surely know this not to be true. They dare not act on that knowledge — David Frum (@davidfrum) December 18, 2016

11) In 1965, 1981, 2009, new presidents changed national direction with clear democratic consent. — David Frum (@davidfrum) December 18, 2016

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12) 2017 bids to be as activist as those prior years – but without the clear consent. How will that end? Not well, I fear. -30- — David Frum (@davidfrum) December 18, 2016

Bolstering Frum’s point that Trump’s lies about the election results has become the conservative canon, a recent poll shows that 52 percent of Republican voters think Trump won the popular vote in November, although he lost by 3 million votes.