The myth of fake news ignores the biggest source of lies: Trump. “CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday blasted President Trump over a USA Today op-ed criticizing ‘Medicare for all,’ saying it was ‘suffused with lies.’ ‘It’s only an hourlong show. . . .We can’t get into every lie President Trump told in that op-ed.'” Good for him.

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You realize tax progressivity is a myth when you see this: “Over the past decade, Jared Kushner’s family company has spent billions of dollars buying real estate. His personal stock investments have soared. His net worth has quintupled to almost $324 million. And yet, for several years running, Mr. Kushner — President Trump’s son-in-law and a senior White House adviser — appears to have paid almost no federal income taxes.”

Trump obliterated the Republicans’ myth that character doesn’t matter. “Trump can’t readily cheer the nation in moments of triumph (championship sports teams boycott his White House). He doesn’t tenderly comfort the nation in times of tragedy (he tosses paper towels to hurricane victims, and does a double fist pump on the anniversary of 9-11). He doesn’t read books, talk movies or go to the theater, and is unwelcome at even the Kennedy Center Honors over which presidents have presided for nearly 40 years. This reality is striking, and sad: When it comes to those personal rituals of the modern presidency that Americans have long since taken for granted, Donald J. Trump is the man who isn’t there.”

The myth that suppression of African American votes is a thing of the past: “The federal lawsuit targeting Republican Brian Kemp’s use of a Georgia law that has stalled the voter registrations of more than 53,000 potential voters has revived calls for his resignation.”

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