For Santos, it’s an unusual up-is-down approach that would have been almost unthinkable in an earlier generation but one that signals the new norms taking hold amid the deepening of a post-truth era in Congress.
Pressed about the idea of a post-truth era, Santos said, “I think truth still matters very much.”
Santos is coming of political age at a time of an unmooring in civic life...
“What I see in the post-truth era is not just that people are lying or lying more, it’s that they’re lying with a political purpose,” Lee McIntyre, the author of “Post-Truth” and a research fellow at Boston University.
Santos often turns the tables, engaging in the whataboutism that has become commonplace in modern politics — the verbal somersault of equating one’s actions with those of others...
The Russification of America
It’s what McIntyre calls a classic “disinformation tactic” designed not to bring clarity but confusion, and avoid accountability.
It is: disinformatsiya, a 1950's Soviet tactic.
