A Terrifying New Chapter in Blurring the Past

Frank Bruni: “Anyone who treats or talks about history as a fixed narrative knows nothing about history at all. History yields to fresh insights and new research. It’s hijacked by agendas. After being written by the victors, it sometimes allows the losers a few edits. It’s reinvestigated, relitigated, recast.”

“But the makeover of Jan. 6, 2021, just four short years later stands disturbingly apart from that. It adds a chilling contemporary twist: What happens when a demagogue with grandiose ambitions, few if any scruples and little regard for honesty has, at his disposal, an utterly corrupted information environment like ours? When he enjoys a playing field so ideally suited for lies?”