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If you wonder how so many people can be blissfully ignorant of what you and I consider basic factual realities, the answer likely is that they are getting their information, not just from sources that disagree with us, but that seem to be living in another galaxy. Take, for example, the stories highlighted in today’s New York Times, as they appear in that paper’s morning email:

So much error packed into a single subhed! First, Trump has “acolytes,” meaning that he is a religious or cult leader. Did Barack Obama, Joe Biden or Kamala Harris ever have “acolytes”? Of course not. Second, how has Trump “purged” the GOP? Has someone been kicked out of the party? Not that I know of.

And finally, what is the basis for saying that Trump has made the GOP “smaller and more strident”? In fact, according to Gallup, more people now identify themselves as Republicans than as Democrats, for the first time since, at least, 1992. In reality, of course, what has the Times on the edge of hysteria is that Trump has made the GOP larger, not smaller, so that he is currently favored to win the presidency, while Republicans are almost certain to take control of the Senate and are likely to retain their majority in the House. Shrinkage like this, we need more of.

And as for stridency, the Times should look in the mirror.

Once again, sheer delusion. Everyone knows that it is Democrats, not Republicans, who try to steal elections. This is why Republicans consistently favor ballot security measures, while Democrats fight to the death against them. Are there readers of the Times who don’t understand this?

Tom Friedman deserves a lifetime achievement prize for cluelessness. It is not easy to be so consistently wrong, year after year. He defies the law of averages.

Here, you have to begin with the fact that if Israel had listened to “the Biden team,” they wouldn’t have gone into Rafah at all, and Sinwar would be alive today. So “the Biden team” is not in a good position to tell Israel how to capitalize on the killing of their arch enemy. And the idea that “the Biden team” is remotely capable of “build[ing] peace” is delusional. But the crowning idiocy is: “Will Israel take steps toward a Palestinian state?” Let me answer that one for you, Tom: No. No, they won’t.

David Brooks, the Times’ house “conservative,” can’t understand why Kamala Harris isn’t a runaway winner. Well, I am an actual conservative, and I don’t understand how in the Hell anyone could possibly vote for her.

The 50/50 split we see in our electorate is what happens when something close to one-half of our population knows few actual facts, but gets its information–or misinformation–from news sources that read like they were produced in an alternative universe.