Bringing up reality is fighting dirty, to Liberals.
Bringing up reality is not accepting their premises, it's rejecting their assumptions and signaling that you're not going to play their game.
They react to this by calling you stupid. If you haven't done or said anything demonstrably stupid, they make something up, as they did with the "I can see Russia from my house" quote, which was falsely attributed to Sarah Palin.
When that stops working, the accuse you of doing something that they're doing. This happened two months ago with the "fake news" meme, which got traction for about 48 hours, but then got inexorably turned back against them, until finally they were running away from it in a state of panic. Last week, the New York Times, which was the inventor of the expression, officially forbade its employees from ever again using those two words in conjunction.
Have you noticed that when Trump says something (like he did today with his answer to John Lewis), there is an initial period of outrage, followed by a slow push-back, which accelerates, and in a few days or weeks the whole discussion has pivoted as the truth of his observation becomes obvious and is accepted by ordinary people? The hysteria of the MSM is shoveled into the memory hole like a pile of hot ashes, but the damage is done, and they move on to the next attack, but from a slightly weaker position.
“Have you noticed that when Trump says something (like he did today with his answer to John Lewis), there is an initial period of outrage, followed by a slow push-back, which accelerates, and in a few days or weeks the whole discussion has pivoted as the truth of his observation becomes obvious and is accepted by ordinary people? The hysteria of the MSM is shoveled into the memory hole like a pile of hot ashes, but the damage is done, and they move on to the next attack, but from a slightly weaker position.”
Rules for Radicals
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals