The Post-Truth World

Oxford Dictionaries declared “post-truth” the Word of the Year on November 16, 2016. The full definition is: “Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Or, as the Hollywood Reporter put it, “a time when truth has become irrelevant.”

The timing was no accident, and Oxford president Casper Grathwohl explained the rationale: “post-truth as a concept has been finding its linguistic footing for some time,” but it was chosen because Britain voted for Brexit and America voted for Trump.

Life was simpler in the good ol’ days before 2016. Sensible people wanted a shared reality based on straightforward truths. Taxes and gas prices were either lower four years ago or they weren’t. Nobody argued over the definition of “woman.” And if you liked your health care plan you could keep it.

I really miss the Lightworker Era, when Barack Obama was “god of all things,” Attorney General Eric Holder was “the Moses of our time,” and everyone agreed that you could have your own opinions but not your own facts.

But it’s 2025 now, the post-truth world is a decade older and wiser, and all reasonable people agree that those who express vile opinions must be purged from politics. In New York, for example, the Republican executive committee disbanded the Young Republicans Club for vile words about black people and Nazis. Some members apologized and others resigned.

And in Washington DC, Republican lawmakers abandoned Paul Ingrassia, President Trump’s nominee to lead a federal watchdog agency, after he once described himself as having a “Nazi streak” in a private text message. Ingrassia is no longer the nominee.

On the Democrat side, Jay Jones, candidate for Virginia Attorney General, has cancelled his campaign after saying little Fascist children need to die in their mother’s arms.

Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger told Jones to step down after he said he would rather murder Todd Gilbert (the former Speaker of the Virginia Assembly) than Adolf Hitler.

Bernie Sanders withdrew his endorsement of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner because the Democrat has a 20-year old Nazi tattoo.

And in New York City, anti-white Muslim socialist Zohran Mamdani suspended his campaign for mayor when an Islamic leader endorsed him after saying Muhammad demands the death of gay men.

In response to this murderous Nazi rhetoric, Democrat voters across the country are recoiling in horror and boycotting the election.

Oh, wait. Mamdani, Platner, Spanberger and Jones are still running, and Democrats are still voting for them because in our post-truth world Israel is the new Nazi Germany, Charlie Kirk was a Fascist who deserved to be assassinated, and America hasn’t been saved by a successful assassination of King Donald.

As for Mamdani, he didn’t say gay men should be thrown off New York buildings, but he did refuse to denounce “globalize the intifada,” the Islamic slogan that demands a final solution to the Jewish problem.

If given the choice, any self-respecting National Socialist would say the same thing.