The Rotting of the Republican Mind

David Brooks: “In a recent Monmouth University survey, 77 percent of Trump backers said Joe Biden had won the presidential election because of fraud. Many of these same people think climate change is not real. Many of these same people believe they don’t need to listen to scientific experts on how to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.”

“We live in a country in epistemological crisis, in which much of the Republican Party has become detached from reality.”