It is easy to twist someone’s mind, that has been twisted most of their lives.
The institutional problem became destructive when disinformation alone wasn’t enough. The democrats and their smarmy Obama began to use the federal courts to become players in their disinformation psy-ops games. When it was just the public and the media, it is a condescending ruse. But when you involve high ranking justice heads affirming lies in order to wield the power of the justice department against your enemies, that’s the stuff of outrage. So where is the outrage?