As Dan Froomkin notes, Joe Conason stated recently that the contemporary right (e.g., Republican party) lies and lies again for two reasons. The first is that "they’ve discovered, over a long period, that it is highly profitable to mobilize people’s fears and resentments around mythical issues."
"The second reason is that facts don’t work for them."
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