A coordinated escalation from tabloid journalism to policy infrastructure

I'll never understand how the right wing smear campaigns that emerge from a closed, hateful ecosystem of rabid rage manages to drape themselves in the banner of "free speech". I'll never understand how active denial of factual realities is seen as a virtue. The sequencing is: Monticello, July 9; Montpelier, July 16; Heritage, July 27. That is a coordinated escalation from tabloid journalism to…