You can always count on Bloomberg to do the dirty work...
it would be bad enough untangling that, but something like a third of US adults have just completely checked out of consensus reality and either believe all that or just think the banana-ness of the sky and natural luminosity of water is some sort of debatable value that's been hitherto suppressed by woke muslims transes or something.
I think that's extremely telling, about what's a lie and what isnt. But let's just say, both parties are liars: there's still only one party trying to destroy opportunity & excellent, trying to cut the throat of the USA.
But, in fact, things like anthropogenic climate change that the right refused to acknowledge, and believed that the media was lying to them about, are true.
It matters what is actually true. The fact that the two sides may have felt the same isn't relevant. The truth is that it wasn't the same.
Another factor: Republicans think it's authoritarianism when the mainstream media doesn't tell them the things they prefer to believe. But here's another clue for them: It's only authoritarianism when the government uses its monopoly on power to force the media to say what they say. It's not authoritarianism when the media says something because they think it's true, or even when they say it because they are trying to please an audience that mostly thinks it's true.
be well.