How To Handle Trump In The Post-Truth Era

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan once stated that "everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

How quaint.  Of course, in the post-truth era, not only is everyone entitled to his own facts, but you don't even need facts to back up your positions.  Just consider the GOP's stance on climate change if you don't believe me.

Donald Trump's birtherism is another good example of this.  He had absolutely no facts to back up his assertion that Obama is an illegal alien, but that didn't stop him from making such a pronouncement at every opportunity.

So now that The Donald is the presumptive GOP nominee, how do Democrats deal with Trump in the post-truth era?  I think the answer to that question is fairly straight-forward:  The Democrats shouldn't outright lie about Trump -- that's too Republican for my tastes -- but they shouldn't merely stick to the whole truth either. 

Let me give you an example.  This week, the head of a white nationalist political party "was briefly slated to cast a ballot for Donald Trump this summer at the Republican National Convention after the campaign approved his application to serve as a California delegate." The Trump campaign claims that this resulted from a "database error," but even if that is true, who cares?  All the Democrats should ever say about this during the run-up to the General Election is as follows:

Last winter, Donald Trump refused to reject white supremacist David Duke's endorsement of his candidacy.  Trump continued to show his support for racism when he went out of his way to approve William Johnson, the head of the white nationalist political party, as one of his delegates at the Republican Convention.

Not entirely true you say? Who gives a shit. This is the post-truth era, Motherfuckers!  If the Trump campaign responds by saying it was all an accident, the Democrats should simply ignore such a response and reply that Trump intentionally approved a white supremacist as one of his delegates because he didn't want to alienate the racists that make up over half of the Republican Party.

Let me give you another example of how to deal with Trump post-truth.  The Donald is certain to mention Bill Clinton's sexual indiscretions in the coming months.  Indeed, he brought up the topic just a few days ago, accusing Hillary of being a "total enabler" of Bill's alleged affairs.  How should the Democrats respond to this?  Well, that's easy -- they should simply say:

It takes a lot of nerve for Donald Trump to speak out on such things when Trump himself admitted that he wants to fuck his own daughter.

Not true you say?  Well, it's true enough for modern political discourse.  

Post-truth era politics: It's FAN-tastic.

UPDATE:  It turns out that Trump cannot remove the white nationalist from his delegate list.  How inconvenient for him.