How Trump's regime has become captive to its own lies

In The Power of the Powerless, Vaclav Havel described a system in which lies are not incidental, but foundational. A system that does not merely tolerate falsehood, but requires it, reproduces it, lives within it: “Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything.”

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