No matter how many things Ms. Salazar makes up, it seems unfair to liken her to our post-truth president, who lies on a much grander scale and who has the power to do far, far greater damage. And yet, the willingness of Ms. Salazar’s supporters to look past her fabrications sounds eerily familiar to the justifications Trump supporters made in 2016: Yes, he’s distasteful and prone to exaggeration. Even the right’s dismissal of anything critical of Mr. Trump as fake news has its left-wing equivalent. Ms. Salazar is one of a dozen women who have accused David Keyes, until this week a top aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, of sexual misconduct. The right has been damaged beyond belief by its embrace of Mr. Trump.

Source: New York Times September 15, 2018 01:22 UTC