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The Clinton campaign and its smear machine, including David Brock, cannot absorb the blame or else they’ll be finished off in big-money politics. They must figure out new, more effective ways to stay relevant and influence public opinion. As such, they will quickly initiate new strategies that involve pointing the finger at Russia, FBI director Com

In many ways, this entire campaign season, from the primaries through the general election, becomes the epitome of the smear.

You get the idea. Everybody’s on the same page, using tried-and-true astroturf language to smear anyone asking questions about Clinton’s medical condition. We later discovered that Clinton was, indeed, secretly ill at the time. Yet these reporters declared definitively, as a matter of fact, that she was not.

Even more frightening than an electorate unable—unwilling—to allow facts to shape its reality is that it has elected a president and, to an increasing number of its members, a Congress whose views and policies are influenced by faith over fact. “For the first time in our history,” Bill Moyers said in a recent speech at Harvard, “ideology and theolo

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